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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... reported incident of civilian deaths since September 1976 , when more than 30 were killed . Those dead at Dabwa included sixteen women , twelve children and seven men . They were gathered in the kraal with approximately 200 others when ...
... reported an official of the Salisbury Archdiocese who visited the Mtoko area in July where he saw people living out in the cold be- cause their former houses had been burnt by the army and they were still building their new houses ...
... reported to be carrying permits from the dis- trict commissioner and the police . To his credit a ZANU ( PF ) political commissar at the ceremony said that the party should not be associated with the witch - hunt . The Catholic head of ...
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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 |