Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Languages and Orthography
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Situating Kusamira and Nswezi as Repertories of Well-Being
Repertories of Well-Being
Geographic and Fieldwork Context
Pathways to the Healer's Shrine
The Music: Instrumentation, Idioms, and Heterophony
Broader Impacts of Kusamira for Ethnographic Theory
From Divination to Diagnosis to Intervention
The Path Ahead

1. Ritual Work in Twenty-First-Century Uganda: From Folk Well-Being to Ex-Colonial Professionalization
From (In)Visibility to Audibility: Traditional Healers in the Ugandan Ex-Colony
Struggles for Control and Productive Simultaneities in the Ugandan Ex-Colony
The Social Basis of Ugandan Health, Past and Present
"Living Positively": Indigenous Music and Medicine in the Time of AIDS
New Struggles for Control in Uganda
Ritual Musicking as Ritual Work
Conclusion
2. Ecologies of Well-Being: Hearing the World through Ritual Repertories
Invoking the Twins

Ssewasswa: Performing Idioms of Risk and Abundance
Community and Ecology across Two Regions
Mayembe: Binding Spiritual Work and Ecology into Concentrated Space
Hunting, Gathering, and Joining: Ddungu the Hunter
Pantheons and Litanies, Fauna and Flora: Repertories of Practice
From Animals Back to Plants Again
Rivers and Other Waters, Trees and Other Plants
Conclusion
3. Possessing Sound Medicine: Gathering Resources, Strengthening Networks, Composing Knowledge
Sanctuaries of Tradition
Spirit Mediums: Flexible Persons, Conduits to Networks, and Bearers of Knowledge

Okwaza: Searching for Spirits
Mayembe: The Musical Socialization of Spiritual Power
Gimme Shelter: Meeting Spirits' Demands for Places to Call Their Own
The Ritual Seriousness of Play
Ritual Innovation: High-Tech(ne) Hymnody
Conclusion
4. Sacrifice and Song: Ritual Exchange and the Production of Relational Ideals
The Cultural Logic of Sacrifice: Singing and Praying, Blessing and Feeding
Hunting Productive Power: Sacrifice, Sexuality, and the Contours of Liminality
Omukolo gw'Emisambwa: The Rite of the Misambwa
Omukolo gwa Kiwanuka: The Rite of Kiwanuka

Rituals of New Life, Open Doors, and Fertility
Omukolo gwa Sserugulamilyango: The Ritual of the One Who Opens Doorways
Omukolo gw'Abakyala: Rite of the Women
Interlude: Kalalu (Little Wild One)
Omukolo gw'Amayembe: The Rite of the Mayembe (Working Spirits)
A Contrasting Example of Sacrifice: Irondo
Conclusion
5. From Tea and Coffee Berries to Beer and Meat: Sound, Hospitality, and Feasting in Repertories of Well-Being
Coffee Berries, Groundnuts, and Banana Beer
Cleansing and Gratitude
Dancing with the Spirits: Well-Being beyond Therapeutics
Conclusion