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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... bones " in par- ticular tell him if the patient's distress is related to the shedding of blood . The left hind ankle bone of a hwiribidi ( " antbear ” ) — a black bone bound with two silver rings , each about one centimeter wide— points ...
... bones to Harare . " Mother : " If he goes , I will have no one to help with the cat- tle . There is no one to care ... bone is cracked in the head . " [ The children's eyes were , by this time , as large as owls ' . ] Another n'anga ...
... bones . The herbalist , on the other hand , is not concerned with the cause of illness , but only with the treatment of physical symptoms . But he also relies on his shave to show him where to find the appropriate herbs , the ...
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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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