Harriet Ngubane

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. She represented the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2004. Quotes To be reunited with society through cure was to effect a desired situation in life, whether that be social, biological or spiritual. 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. the importance of red symbols as representing the change from sickness to good health because of the therapeutic power of symbolism for the sufferer In spite of Christianity the permeating influence in the Nyuswa reserve is based more on Zulu culture than on any foreign culture’ In most aspects of daily life, outlook and habits, I am Zulu in spite of my mission background’. 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. External links Category:Women academics from South Africa Category:Anthropologists from South Africa Category:1929 births Category:2007 deaths Category:Women born in the 1920s