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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... spirit of tribe ( 355 ) . gombwe ( pl . mak- ) 1. Guardian spirit ( especially of tribe ) . 2. Medium of tribal spirit ( 191 ) . njuzu Water sprite ( 474 ) . ( Njuzu are spirits that live in water and take those whom they wish to ...
... spirit at his home when it should be held at her natal home ? The spirit possessing the father's brother demanded that the spirits speak for themselves . The man's wife's spirit said , " I am the one who breaks legs . " The son's spirit ...
... spirits were trying to possess him . One was evil and came from his ancestral spirits of long ago . This spirit was blocking a good spirit , thus making the boy ill . The boy was cleansed of the evil spirit . He spent four days and four ...
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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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