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Harriet Ngubane Quotes

1929–2007 South Africa

Harriet Ngubane (11 November 1929 – October 2007), formerly known as Harriet Sibisi, was a South African social anthropologist best known for her work on Zulu belief systems. Though educated in England, Ngubane spent the latter years of her career as a professor at the University of Cape Town.

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To be reunited with society through cure was to effect a desired situation in life, whether that be social, biological or spiritual.

In most aspects of daily life, outlook and habits, I am Zulu in spite of my mission background’.

This deeply anthropological understanding of health considered that it is in fact the process of achieving a desired state is of most significance to the sufferer.

In spite of Christianity the permeating influence in the Nyuswa reserve is based more on Zulu culture than on any foreign culture’

Important aspects of Zulu culture were unrecognised and denied by Catholicism, including the recognition of ancestral power, the consulting of a diviner and certain forms of marriage.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harriet Ngubane (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.