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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... preparation and administration of med- icines . The child is expected to help during treatment sessions , includ- ing ... prepare medicines alone . He may begin to gather herbs on his own initiative . While the healer is away , the child ...
... prepare the plant as medicine . Her dream legitimized her inquiry . She used the dream to gain knowledge . Unless the girl is prepared to adopt the language ( whether consciously or unconsciously ) of the symbolic system , she cannot ...
... prepare for their needs , if any . Usually the only thing that they needed was food . These were the disciplined and honest forces of 1977 and early 1978 . Towards the end of 1978 and early 1979 , the situation suddenly changed ...
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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 |