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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... mediums gave the guerrillas legitimacy in terms of the past and gave the peasants some way of controlling the young men with guns ( ibid . , 208 ) . The mediums effectively laid down " the moral economy of the war " ( ibid . , 212 ) ...
... mediums . Among the eastern Korekore , at least , he feels that the mediums " acquired more status from the guerrillas than the guerrillas did from the mediums . " In this area , the guerrillas had their legitimacy as freedom fighters ...
... mediums who only carry out diagnosis but do not handle medicines . General tradi- tional healers who used to be called herbalists . Those who are spirit mediums but also treat patients . Among the sixty healers with whom I worked only ...
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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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