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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... gives the plants ' scientific names , and references to Wild ( 1972 ) and Gelfand et al . ( 1985 ) where ... give the results . Points earned by boys and girls were remarkably similar . Children who live with healers scored more on Test ...
... gives two reports from national newspapers on the scourge of belief in witchcraft and on the effect of superstition ... give a summary of their responses . Seventy - one percent of the sample group ( children who live with n'anga ) said ...
... gives fast results . " Traditional healers were preferred because " they give protective herbs and treat the illness so that it does not return " ; because " I know what their medicines treat , whereas at the clinic they give useless ...
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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 |