Documentário: a doença do chamamento

Abstract

The Nguni and Ndau invasion of southern Mozambique in the 19th century, made it possible for them to interact with the Tsonga group. It is from this interaction that a new type of traditional medicine practitioner emerges: nyamusoro. This figure incorporates the spiritual entities Nguni, Ndau and Tsonga and combines their powers and functions. Based on these new characteristics, to become a nyamusoro and, consequently, to acquire the knowledge that gives access to the ancestral power, the individual chosen by the ancestors goes through a period of suffering and difficulties called summons Disease. And to this phenomenon different meanings have been attributed according to the field of knowledge that interprets it. This work, in a way of a documentary with the theme “The summons Disease” during 29’ 5”,and tells stories of four young people who experience numerous misfortunes in life and, coincidentally, when consulting an experienced nyanga (Healer), they are diagnosed with the summons Disease, that is, the spirits. of their ancestors chose them to continue the nyanga profession. It is based on these stories that in the same work the knowledge of traditional, religious, anthropological and psychological medicine is crossed in an attempt to explain the phenomenon of summons.