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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... head ( sandunhu ) came from the north and were granted permission by the chief to occupy land . The lineage of the ward head is affinally related to Chief Mang- wende who is referred to as " son - in - law ” ( mukwasha ) . The line- age ...
... head . The vi- sion is the person . He will then make the coughing sound of one possessed and walk away . A witch does not die . The person will be ill and when he dies people will see on the head a nail or a hole which will identify ...
... head downward and lowered him into a bucket full of water , hold- ing him like that as long as they wished . He would struggle and struggle , cry as much as possible ; but to them that was amusement , and they laughed . The work was ...
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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 |