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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... farms were dislocated , food production decreased , and services were disrupted . Many rural clinics and hospi- tals ceased to function ( half the clinics in Mashonaland province had closed by May 1979 ) , pre - and postnatal care fell ...
... farming . He threw his hakata to determine whether or not the baby should be taken to hospital . Cleansing is seen to strengthen the mind , chase evil , and secure protection . I could find no parallel among the Zezuru for the concept ...
... Farming Area of Zimbabwe . " Seminar paper , Department of Soci- ology , University of Zimbabwe . Mimeograph . Cilliers , J. K. 1985. Counter - Insurgency in Rhodesia . Dover , N.H .: Croom Helm . Clifford , J. 1986. " Introduction ...
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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 |