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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... caused " ( God- caused ) diseases or misfortunes and those attributed to " human cause . " The former misfortunes " just happen " or are " in the order of things " as , for example , in the death of a very old per- son or in an ...
... cause of the child's trouble and on the willingness of the family to tell the truth , pay compensation , or chase the ngozi to the killer . The third cause lay in children's wartime activities . We have seen that as mujibha children ...
... cause illness or distress to fall on the baby be- cause , the n'anga say , the family will pay immediate attention , seek out the cause , and attempt to redress grievances when a baby's well- being is affected . One n'anga said , " It ...
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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 |