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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... comrades throughout the war years . He did not help them because he believed that his spirit hates bloodshed . He said , " The comrades were annoyed . My spirit does not allow kill- ing and so I could give neither courage nor power to ...
... comrades . People were searched ; some escaped into the hills , but others were arrested . Once the soldiers had left , rumors about sell - outs were passed around the vil- lage . Machena heard his name mentioned . A comrade visited him ...
... comrades to treat or divine for them . Masango , too , was accused of being a sell - out , but by the Security Forces , not the comrades . He had , he says , served the comrades , giv- ing them money , food , and clothing and going out ...
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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 |