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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Pamela Reynolds. cially in psychological cases . He points to the ambiguous position that n'anga occupy in Shona society , where they are treated with both re- spect and caution . In his analysis of the position of spirit mediums , Fry ...
... position in society . During the war there was no safety for the inno- cent , nor were many children allowed to remain innocent . Akson Bare , a student from Chibi , told Frederikse : " We mujibas , we did not have any guns . Sometimes ...
... position in the family , community , and the world of the spirits . Children are active in shaping their ascribed positions , forming identities for themselves that may even redefine others ' per- ceptions of their assigned places ...
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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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