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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... evil.1 I want to explore Zezuru notions of the innocence of children : their vulnerability to evil ; their access to the supernatural ; their complicity in evildoing ; their ability to judge and bring retribution for evil done ; and ...
... evil and danger . ( We have , of course , an abundance of other fears and face evil in many guises . ) Pocock , surveying British uses of the term evil , finds two points of view : " A majority is prepared to use the word in the radical ...
... evil , rather than the moral evil that witchcraft is . However , he adds , " Of all evil influences , an angry spirit ( ngozi ) is perhaps the most greatly feared by Shona " ( 235 ) . For this reason and because a ngozi may be some ...
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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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