Some prominent features of Ndjuka Maroon medicine

Description of the health-care system of the Ndjuka Maroons. The author discusses such topics as diagnostist therapy, the mechanics of interpretation, obia, and payment. According to Vernon, 'perhaps the most outstanding feature of Ndjuka health-care is its complete immersion in the coherent socio-cultural whole, and the crucial role alotted to illness as the revealing mark of any troubled socio-economic relations'.