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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... Sometimes the child rebels either against the order of things or specifically against the healing call . Refusal to attend school is quite frequent . Dreams are more openly interpreted as being messages from the shades . A ritual may be ...
... sometimes he would climb a tree and fall , sometimes run into a river , sometimes fly . These dreams would commonly be interpreted as a spirit testing the will and cour- age of the dreamer . Each feature has symbolic resonance . For ...
... sometimes abused their positions of power . Ranger found that in Makoni in early 1981 , " there was a good deal of re- membered resentment among elders and parents directed against the power exercised by the mujibhas during the war ...
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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 |