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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... brother ( FB ) has a family spirit that had recently been confirmed by the healer who related the case . Her information came from Son I. Son 3 prepared a ritual feast ( bira ) to welcome the spirits of his Key : Father's brother Father ...
... brother's ( FB 1 ) spirit emerged . When Son 3 claimed that his wife and children were possessed by the spirits of , respectively , his father - in - law ( wife's own father ) , his father , and his mother , his father's brother's ...
... Brother fought against brother in the bush , father against son , and so forth . They hunted one another down in the struggle for life and death . The guerrillas would come to Mr Mudimba and ask for food . As time dragged on , 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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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 |