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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... death became profoundly significant and a cluster of myths grew up around it ( Ranger 1982 , 350 ) . Subse- quent mediums of the spirit of Chaminuka became resistance heroes of later oral tradition . Chaminuka was hailed as " Priest ...
... death . Death 10. Death is followed by the eventual possession of a kin member by the healer's spirit , often after a period of intense rivalry within the family . Kin play an influential part in the emergence of healers . They make ...
... death in the family and , not long thereafter , her sister's son died ; another child dreamed of the death of an uncle ( baba makura ) , but no clear interpretation was given ; yet another dreamed of building and the dream was said to ...
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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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