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Witchcraft or Madness? The Amandiki of Zululand, 1894-19141 |
In late May 1999 Anglican Archdeacon, Ebenezer Ntlali, performed an exorcism to drive out evil |
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The Voice of History? Archives, Ethics and Historians [Lunacy] |
These documents and letters - which I have placed in chronological order, and taken excerpts from, but have not otherwise edited or changed in any way - can be found at the Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository.2 They comprise, in the main, correspondence between various officials from the offices |
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The Mad in their Midst: Accommodating Insanity in Natal, 1868-1920 |
In December 1916, James Mkize, a kholwa (Christian) peasant farmer and preacher submitted a deposition to the Resident Magistrate of Umzimkulu, southern Natal, South Africa, detailing at some length the reasons why he believed that his brother, Bennie, was insane and should be legally detained in |
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The fools on the hill : the Natal government asylum and the institutionalisation of insanity in colonial Natal |
Representing one aspect of my wider research into changing perceptions and practices of mental illness and mental health in the period c.1850-1950 in the region that today is KwaZulu-Natal, this paper focuses on the colonial identification and institutionalisation of those deemed insane between t |