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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... patient will be able to pay at the time of receiving medicine or later on . The spirit instructs the medium as to whether or not to accept the patient . The spirit does not allow the medium to charge a fee to one who is dying . The patient ...
... patient . The puri- fication ritual would not have been effective if the patient had not revealed the truth . Gushongo , a n'anga with a large following in Mabvuku , did not claim to have played much of a role during the war ; but he ...
Pamela Reynolds. When a patient presents a complex problem , whether the patient is an adult or child , the n'anga follows the same process . Initially the patient or a member of his or her family describes the symptoms , often in ...
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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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