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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... killed is but the tip of an ice- berg . The Rhodesian Security Forces released the figures on the num- ber of European and African civilians and Security Forces killed . They also gave the number of " terrorists " killed , which ...
... killed for doing no wrong . " " People were killed for no apparent reason . " " I saw people killed for nothing . They were just shot like animals . " The children often commented on the fact that those killed were given no chance to ...
... killed in battle and their spirits would not return to trouble him ; some he killed as varoyi ( witches ) because he believed they had eaten the corpses of comrades killed in battle ; and others he killed for being sell - outs . Gororo ...
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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 |