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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... accused of obtaining the services of a chik- wambo ( faculty , conferred by shave , sent to recover property and pun- ish those who refuse to restore property or to stir trouble , rather as a ngozi spirit might ) and of enlisting the ...
... accused of being a sell - out , but by the Security Forces , not the comrades . He had , he says , served the comrades , giv- ing them money , food , and clothing and going out to treat them when he was called . Twice he was arrested by ...
... accused of being a Highlanders agent sent to put " muti ” on the pitch . In a bid to avoid being bewitched , Dynamos refused to use des- ignated entry points . The matter has been brought before the disciplinary committee . No decision ...
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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 |