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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... herbs and in treatment sessions . Most children are taught to classify plants into three categories : poisonous plants , edible plants , and plants that must not be tampered with because they belong to the shades . This instruction is ...
... herbs and to grant those herbs healing powers . The children stood before her . We searched for herbs for three hours in an arc from the healer's home . The sixteen - year - old gathered herbs and returned with them to her grandmother ...
... herbs placed in incisions in the skin that should be pricked with a vulture's claw . The vulture's heart is cooked with herbs and eaten . The medicine is given to trusted children , those with a good heart and an interest in the healing ...
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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 |