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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... consulted me about these dreams . I could not tell him what I thought because they contained an un- canny prognosis . The little girl died a year later of an infectious disease . She had never been born entirely . [ ibid . , 107 ] I ...
... consulted . It could be , Zezuru might say , that the children's mother was a witch and had initiated them into witchcraft before she died . She is not mentioned in the text . If she was a witch and if the children are in complicity ...
... consulted different n'anga and they all agree . " Chihata [ consults her glass ] : " I have also seen that this woman is a showoff and arouses jealousy . " [ Mother laughs . ] Mother : " I have worked hard . I have earned enough for a ...
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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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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents Kedar Nath Dwivedi Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |