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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... become blind when told to write ; at the age of eight she would fall into the river en route to school . It was interpreted by her parents that her spirit was forbidding her to attend school . ( This is a theme that quite often emerges ...
... Becomes a N'anga No child believed that someone can simply decide to become a n'anga . Most of the children said that a person must be possessed by an ancestral or njuzu spirit and taught about healing through dreams . Two suggested ...
... become too short for everybody . Things had become so bad at one time that I thought of absconding from Zimbabwe and losing myself in the vast world . However , this idea could not materialise as it was only contained in the heart of a ...
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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 |