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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... forces claim that there was no firing from the helicopters as they circled the school . ( There are bullet holes in the roof of the school . ) The security forces allege that the " terrorists " opened fire on the ground forces , who ...
... force who were on a " normal follow - up operation . " The contact followed the robbery of two buses in the area . " The security forces on the ground entered the kraal as a result of informa- tion they received , " explained Supt ...
... forces according to Lieutenant - Colonel Cedric French . " They don't like to see innocent civilians killed whatever the circumstances , " he said . An editorial in the Rhodesia Herald of 11 May entitled " Victims of War " commented on ...
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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 |