ABSTRACT
A s MENTIONED IN PRECEDING CHAPTERS, the goals of this volume are to understand what traditional healers do, discover what takes place between healers and their clients, recreate the practices, in-
depth and unshared knowledge, and behaviors of seven Yoruba Traditional Healers (YTHs) in their interactions with clients, and subsequently generate hypotheses regarding these interpersonal techniques. In furtherance of these aims, I observed, interacted with, videotaped and interviewed profiled healers during individual healing and group divining sessions with their clients, generated data from the information collected through the above methods, and derived hypotheses from these multiple sources of evidence (Yin, 1994).
