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Encountering Eloyi / by Richard Werbner.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Ethnographic video online.
- Language:
- English
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Traditional medicine--Botswana.
- Traditional medicine.
- Healers.
- Spiritual healing.
- Christianity and culture.
- Botswana.
- Healing--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Healing.
- Christianity and culture--Botswana.
- Spiritual healing--Botswana.
- Healers--Botswana.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (56 min.) : sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, England : International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English, undetermined native language, with some English subtitles.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- After a long quest for healing by traditional doctors and gynecological treatment by western hospitals, Martha chooses to seek help from this controversial faith-healing church. Her choice widens the gulf between her own faith and her husband's scepticism.
- Credits:
- Richard Werbner, narrator.
- Notes:
- Previously released on DVD.
- Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed April 27, 2012).
- Filmed in Botswana.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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