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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... soldiers of the Rhode- sian Security Forces burn the bodies of comrades . Five of the children said that they had been beaten by soldiers . The following statement , by one of the children I interviewed , is typical : " Soldiers took ...
... soldiers knew that he did not eat sadza . ) For twenty days the soldiers gave him only sadza to eat . He refused it . His courage , he says , came from his spirit . Once the soldiers tried to beat him but they fought among themselves ...
... soldiers in an army vehicle arrived in his vil- lage . Machena took refuge in a room with his father - in - law and sister- in - law . They heard shots . Later they were told that the visit was a reprisal for the killing of two soldiers ...
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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 |