How Long to Read Healing Insanity: a Study of Igbo Medicine in Contemporary Nigeria

How Long Does it Take to Read Healing Insanity: a Study of Igbo Medicine in Contemporary Nigeria?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 32 minutes to read Healing Insanity: a Study of Igbo Medicine in Contemporary Nigeria by Patrick E. Iroegbu

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Description

Healing Insanity: A Study of Igbo Medicine in Contemporary Nigeria is an original and in-depth study on endogenous medical system in an African society. It is craftily written and provides solid insight, through case studies and theory, into how insanity affects patients and the society. Particularly, it explores various collective representations and strategies regarding insanity and healing as it examines the healing institutions, healers, and ritual cults. The central question is, given the patterns of healing, how do the Igbo shape the incidence and symptoms of insanity, define its aetiology, and provide healers with culture-specific resources and skills to address this illness? The focus became increasingly centred on bodily semantics and endogenous knowledge systems and practices. Dr. Patrick Iroegbus work is a very valuable and rare study and has appeared at a desirable time. It is, for an African society, a comprehensive study of the many ways Igbo people, in their practical, routinelike attitudes and body-centred experiences, as well as in their more reflective aetiologic knowledge and healing institutions, relate to the phenomenon of insanity, or ara, in the cultural parlance. As the first of its kind, reminiscent of, and assured by, the various remarks of Igbo scholars and leaders at various meetings and discourses, the task this work has set out to accomplish is a very brave one. The authors account of his fieldwork experiences and adopted techniques illustrates his initiation, revealing him as a genuine ethnographer who is a friend of people and at ease with his field. With both the far-seeing and inspiring analysis of Igbo medicine, life, and culture accounted for in the work, the book stands out for ethnographers, teachers, students, leaders, policymakers, and the general public. This is a book that deserves to be read as it shapes the critical path toward understanding ways of healing insanity in a culture-specific context, crosscutting perspectives for a relationship between indigenous healing and the biomedical sphere. Prof. Ren Devisch (Africa Research Centre, University of Leuven) This book is written with a clear purpose for everyone to readto understand and heal insanityand indeed provides a thick piece of cultural philosophy and vernacular of Igbo medicine in hopes of putting cultural wisdom in pursuit of integral health care development. Prof. Pantaleon Iroegbu (Professor of Philosophy, Major-Seminary, Ekpoma, January 2006) To read this book, as I did, is to get the benefit of Dr. Patrick Iroegbus ethnographic insight for an archetypical African healing system in Igboland. It offers a fascinating theory of symbolic release that speaks of African symbolic action and knowledge system. Dr. Paul Komba, Esq. (University of Cambridge)

How long is Healing Insanity: a Study of Igbo Medicine in Contemporary Nigeria?

Healing Insanity: a Study of Igbo Medicine in Contemporary Nigeria by Patrick E. Iroegbu is 557 pages long, and a total of 143,149 words.

This makes it 188% the length of the average book. It also has 175% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Healing Insanity: a Study of Igbo Medicine in Contemporary Nigeria Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 2 minutes to read Healing Insanity: a Study of Igbo Medicine in Contemporary Nigeria aloud.

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Healing Insanity: a Study of Igbo Medicine in Contemporary Nigeria is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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