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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... Evidence in support of this view is given elsewhere in this volume . It includes data from the life histories of healers , detailing their early learning experiences with healers within the family . There is also data on the children ...
... evidence and arguments presented in this chap- ter follows . First we looked at how children are selected as acolytes and saw that some are carefully chosen as assistants and some are seen to have been “ called . ” The result is that ...
... evidence given by Superintendent Jim Carse of the special branch in charge of the Criminal Investigation Division in the Chiredzi area . According to Supt . Carse , the civilians were killed in crossfire between about nine " terrorists ...
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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 |