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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... symbolic system : So it is not enough to say that the subject is constituted in a symbolic system . It is not just in the play of symbols that the subject is constituted . It is constituted in real practices — histori- cally analyzable ...
... symbolic system , with dreams as one point of mediation . Perhaps we can draw an analogy between the symbolic system and an electrical current that is tapped at different points . The shades ( whether mhondoro , vadzimu , mashave ...
Pamela Reynolds. • 1987. " Symbolic Labour and the Transfer of Symbolic Capital in the Production of a Ritual Field among Korekore and Zezuru of Zimbabwe . " Social Analysis 22 : 47-60 . Geertz , C. 1988. Works and Lives : The ...
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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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