Category | Description | Content codes | Examples from transcripts |
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Typology | Type of healing practitioner | ISangoma_associated to ancestral spirits, is a diviner | 1.“……All the ones I have mentioned are all Sangomas. There are many of them, I have just mentioned a few of them” (Male, Interview 3) |
INyanga _acquires knowledge of healing using plants, herbs and animal parts, is a herbalist | |||
2. “…..there is someone that I know who is a Sangoma, and we are coming from the same family. She also works both as Umthandazi and Inyanga like me” (Female, FGD1, Traditional healer) | |||
UMthandazi _associated to religion & ancestral spirits, is a spiritualist/faith healer | |||
Calling Initiation Training | Process or journey of being appointed to become a traditional healer which includes training & completion (graduation). The process is characterised by performing different activities and rituals | Spiritual | 1.“This Spirit just comes to you unexpectedly. It comes as a messenger, the Holy Spirit just comes down to you and you will not have an idea of what happened to you” (Female, FGD1, Traditional healer) |
Ancestral | |||
Personal Choice | |||
Refusal/Consequences | |||
Training Institution | |||
Apprenticeship | |||
Rituals | |||
Graduation | |||
Healing Practice | Process that a healer & patient go through to identify, explain, discuss & negotiate appropriate treatment with patient. | Causation | 1.“ The patient told me that umndawe [spirit] is high and he needs to start doing amagobongo [traditional ritual]. He was giving me an instruction as a healer! I am the one who is supposed to know what is wrong with him, and what help he needs, I am not supposed to take instructions from him. (Female, FGD 3, Traditional healers) |
Source | |||
Co-production | |||
Assigning | |||
Prescribing | |||
Preparing |