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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... regarded not only as a medicine - man but also as a religious consultant , a legal and political adviser , a police detective , a marriage counsellor and a social worker ” ( 1978 , 19 ) . Gelfand ( 1964 , 23 ) estimated that there was ...
... regarded with ambivalence ) , re- ward ( though she says that fees belong to the shades and she may use them only as directed by the shades ) , and recognition ( though it is conditional ) . No healer is secure in her command of power ...
... regarded as having been ill and therefore eligible for deferment of examinations , just as students bringing certificates from certified Western doctors or psychologists are . Is ngozi a " real " problem ? If it is , can Western healers ...
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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 |