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Award of Excellence
Evelyn Hockstein TIME/Polaris
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A woman possessed by the spirt of her ancestors
shakes and convluvess during a meeting of spiritualists and traditional
healers at Dr.Sekagya's forest school for tradiitional healers south of
Kampala, Uganda. About a hundred students -- local healers, but also
patients with AIDS looking for traditional treatments -- gather weekly under
a glittering canopy. Along with the basics of hygiene and anatomy, students
study the identification and use of local plants. Meanwhile, spiritualists
chant, dance and drum to call down spirits and consult them for cures.
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