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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... story purports to come from a manuscript written by a young governess whose part in the tale is central . The governess ( she is given no name in the story ) applies for a position caring for two orphaned children in a country manor ...
Pamela Reynolds. ghost stories round the fire . James recorded it in his notebook on Jan- uary 12 , 1895 : Note here the ghost - story told me at Addington ( evening of Thursday 10th ) , by the Archbishop of Canterbury : the mere vague ...
... story is that the integrity of the governess's inner state was ill formed for the task of protecting children from ... story " The Writer's Grain " : There was the story my father had told me , Zezuru Turn of the Screw 81.
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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 |