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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... indicated in parentheses ) : mbondoro I. Lion . 2. Guardian spirit of tribe ( 355 ) . gombwe ( pl . mak- ) 1. Guardian spirit ( especially of tribe ) . 2. Medium of tribal spirit ( 191 ) . njuzu Water sprite ( 474 ) . ( Njuzu are ...
... in English an s is added to indicate plurality . To avoid confusion I shall use the singular form of both words for one or many . gives horrifying accounts of Security Forces shooting a woman and Children of Tribulation 43.
... indicate their qualifications after their names , says the president of Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association ( ZINATHA ) , Professor Gordon Chavunduka . Spirit mediums must write the letters SM after their names and ...
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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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