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SANTOS (Eduardo dos). SOBRE a 'Medicina' e Magia dos Quiocos. Lisboa. 1960. - SANTOS (Eduardo dos) SOBRE a 'Medicina' e Magia dos Quiocos . Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1960. 226 pp., [39] ff. de il.; 245 mm. An ethnographic study on the therapeutic and magical practices of the Chokwe people of Angola. The work describes the universe of this people's traditional ”medicine, ” including the role of the diviner and the healer, diagnostic and healing rituals, plant and animal pharmacopoeia, and beliefs in spells and spirits that frame illness and its explanation. The photographic apparatus, gathered in an extensive set of illustrated sheets, documents objects, ceremonies and ritual specialists, and gives the work value as a visual record, in addition to being a written testimony. A work of interest to Africanist studies and the ethnography of Angola. Curious. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate