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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... living and the dead without investigating her own position vis - à - vis the spirits who appeared before her . When dealing with the shades it is imperative to examine one's heart in preparation for drawing the spirits out so that they ...
... living . " It is commonly said , and these beliefs are not kept secret from children , that witches are very fond of eating human flesh , especially the flesh of children ; that in propitiating their spirits witches per- form evil rites ...
... living in Harare follows . ] Mother : " If the boy must go to Harare , I will not disrupt his education now but will send him next year . " Chihata : " You will carry his bones to Harare . " Mother : " If he goes , I will have no one to ...
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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 |