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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... Possession of a Young Girl Before giving an outline of the novella by Henry James I shall briefly describe a case of evil possession of a young girl that happened in Musami not long before I worked there . It shows that witchcraft is ...
... possession or learning from healers . Thirteen children , including the four mentioned above , said that a person can be taught to heal if he or she shows signs of being possessed , especially via dreams . Chil- dren , then , express ...
... possession . Some thought that svikiro are only prophets and advisors ; others , that they learn about herbs from ... possession ( eleven of these were the children of n'anga ) . The children said to be possessed or identified for future ...
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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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