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MARTINS (João Vicente). CRENÇAS, Adivinhação e Medicina Tradicionais dos Tutchokwe do Nordeste de Angola. Lisboa. 1983. - MARTINS (João Vicente) CRENÇAS, Adivinhação e Medicina Tradicionais dos Tutchokwe do Nordeste de Angola . Lisboa: Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, 1983. 484 pp., [54] ff. de fotogravuras: il.; 225 mm. A study on the Tutchokwe (Chokwe) of Northeast Angola, gathering and systematizing practices and representations of the universe of beliefs, divination, and traditional medicine: the etiology of diseases, rituals and specialists (healers/diviners), the social function of therapies and objects of power, as well as the forms of articulation between religion, magic, and daily life. An important contribution to the anthropology of Angola and to the study of traditional African medicines. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate