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- Ukuthwasa is a Southern African culture-bound syndrome ****ociated with the calling and the initiation process to become a sangoma, a type of traditional...
- type of fortune teller. A trainee sangoma (or ithwasane) starts their ukuthwasa or ubungoma (in Xhosa) journey which is ****ociated with the "calling"...
- directed toward people with varying types of schizophrenia. A similar term, ukuthwasa, is used to refer to positive types of claimed possession, though this...
- "A culture-bound syndrome 'amafufunyana' and a culture-specific event 'ukuthwasa': differentiated by a family history of schizophrenia and other psychiatric...
- Chains' in 2008. Additionally, he released a third book, 'A Study of Ukuthwasa,' in the same year, which was based on his MA degree thesis. As Mqotsi...