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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... protect , not destroy . Just as a sick child needs care when he wakes at night or just as children must be protected from contagious disease , so comrades needed protection . Until 1978 Machena had little involvement with the war . One ...
... protection . Those include women attempting to conceive or who are pregnant , children ( espe- cially infants ) , people who hold positions of high rank or who are wealthy or powerful , n'anga , and foreigners . Protection is sought for ...
... protected by the shades from the very moment of its birth . Although the baby is born pure , he or she is extremely ... protection and ensure its efficacy . If the baby's vulnerability is not to be exposed the family must act in accord ...
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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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Researching Children's Popular Culture: The Cultural Spaces of Childhood Claudia Mitchell,Jacqueline Reid-Walsh Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents Kedar Nath Dwivedi Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |