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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... Kazembe is a fairly young healer but his reputation is growing rap- idly . He showed signs of future possession as a small child . His moth- er would take him to the fields and he would become violently ill — he fell unconscious and ...
... Kazembe says that it was a very frightening dream . He thinks the incident actually happened . He struck the spear in the dream , but it was really the elder whom his spirit then possessed . What concerns us here is that the story of ...
... Kazembe professes to know of four cases in which a girl was given in compensation . He said that the girl should grow up in the stranger's family , eventually have a child and , if the baby is the same sex as the family member killed ...
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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 |