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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... appear in her dreams . She selects which dreams to offer for interpretation . She decides whether or not to accept the interpretation , seeking other ex- planations in some cases . She decides whether or not to act in accord with the ...
... appear- ing initially as midzimu ( family spirits ) until they are accepted and only then showing their true colors . During possession , the self is temporarily replaced by a spirit . The person possessed has no subjec- tive experience ...
... appear dead , then steal them from their graves and turn them into familiars . Some people say that witches ' spirits tend to possess girls but kill off boys . Sleepwalk- ing in children or mental retardation may be interpreted as signs ...
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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 |