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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... person comes to the door , he or she will be glued to the medicine . Hold him and hammer a nail into the head . The vi- sion is the person . He will then make the coughing sound of one possessed and walk away . A witch does not die . The ...
... Person Becomes a N'anga No child believed that someone can simply decide to become a n'anga . Most of the children said that a person must be possessed by an ancestral or njuzu spirit and taught about healing through dreams . Two ...
... person does something very bad - like killing someone - but is not found out , will that person still be punished in some way ? " I was inquiring about notions of retribution from the spirit world . A quar- ter of the respondents ...
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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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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents Kedar Nath Dwivedi Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |