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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... beliefs and practices current within so- ciety and examination of the interchange between children and adults as they shape those beliefs . This chapter examines in three sections the exposure of children to evil : innocence , identity ...
... belief . But what is discernible is that , instead , it is giving respectabil- ity to witchcraft beliefs and to the n'angas who are not willing to give up witch - hunting because if they do so they lose more than half their income ...
... Beliefs Practised among the Shona of Rhodesia . Edinburgh : Livingstone . • 1977. The Spiritual Beliefs of the Shona : A Case Study Based on Field Work among the East - Central Shona . Gwelo : Mambo Press . 1979. Growing Up in Shona ...
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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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