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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... individual as " the ensemble of social relations " and Heilbroner ( 1980 , 46 ) recommends that in order to understand the individual " we pierce the facade of the solitary be- ing to its social roots , and then reconstitute the individual ...
... individual behavior because they are members of those communi- ties . Healers were sensitive to individual and community needs be- cause they too experienced war and observed the range of response , activity , and emotional play that ...
... individual identity owing to the incorporation by the individual of the family structure " ( ibid . ) . In contrast , the Ashanti believe that witchcraft operates " in the frame- work of close matrilineal kinship like a self ...
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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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