ABSTRACT
For Tumbuka-speaking peoples of northern Malawi, musical experience is the structural nexus where healer, patient, and spirit meet. The din of the drum, the clapping of the choir, the responsorial singing, the noise of trance dancing, the jangle of tin belts and iron anklets-all contribute to the creation of an auditory field inside the diviner-healer's temple, the locus of a sacred clinical reality.
