Traditional Healers and Childhood in ZimbabweOhio University Press, 1996 - 183 páginas Based on the author's fieldwork among the people of Zezuru, this study focuses on children as clients and as healers in training. In Reynolds's ethnographic investigation of possession and healing, she pays particular attention to the way healers are identified and authenticated in communities, and how they are socialized in the use of medicinal plants, dreams, and ritual healing practices. Reynolds examines spiritual interpretation and remediation of children's problems, including women's roles in these activities, and the Zezuru concepts of trauma, evil, illness, and death. Because this study was undertaken just after the War of Liberation in Zimbabwe, it also documents the devastating effects of the war. |
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... European and African civilians and Security Forces killed . They also gave the number of " terrorists " killed , which included civilians who were killed for breaking curfew and for " running with " the " ter- rorists . " 2 Given the ...
... European and American experience . He uses ambiguity to create so effectively a sense of evil . He has the governess write , " Nothing was more natural than that these things should be the other things they absolutely were not ” ( 473 ) ...
... European , but of African customary law , that minor children are subject to the control and guardianship of their parents . " At the very least those minor children , whose parents , or their representatives , went to Botswana to ...
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The Training of Traditional Healers | 1 |
Kin Ties among Claimants to Possession | 12 |
Dreams and the Constitution of Self | 25 |
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Researching Children's Popular Culture: The Cultural Spaces of Childhood Claudia Mitchell,Jacqueline Reid-Walsh Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents Kedar Nath Dwivedi Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |