Abram 7: "[A] sorcerer derives her ability to cure ailments from her more continuous practice of 'healing' or balancing the community's relation to the surrounding land. Disease, in such cultures, is often conceptualized as a kind of systemic imbalance within the sick person, or more vividly as the intrusion of a demonic or malevolent presence into his body. [...] [S]uch destructive influences within the human community are commonly traceable to a disequilibrium between that community and the larger field of forces in which it is embedded. Only those persons who, by their everyday practive, are involved in monitoring and maintaining the relations between the human village and the animate landscape are able to appropriately diagnose, treat, and ultimately relieve personal ailments and illnesses arising within the village."
8: "Hence, the traditional magician works primarily as an intermediary between human and nonhuman worlds, and only secondarily as a healer"