Les Cahiers de l’IFAS #2: Bodies and Politics
Healing Rituals in the Democratic South Africa
What has been described as a human and geographical “schizophrenia” impels the researchers to take more interest in local events. The concept of healing appears to be especially pertinent in the context of the construction of a new national collective. Good physical health and good political health are intimately linked together as legitimate claims made even more so in the context of globalisation. In the framework of the re-inventing of the South African nation, the body and health provide essential keys for reading and analysing the political development of democratisation.
Véronique Faure, 2002, Bodies and Politics. Healing Rituals in the Democratic South Africa, Johannesburg, IFAS, Cahiers de l’IFAS N°2