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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... taken to limit the damage are illustrated by appendix 10 . CONCLUSION Healers played a profound role in the reordering of Zimbabwean society after the war . In responding to post - war conditions they were creative , flexible , and ...
... taken to Enkeldoorn Hospital with bullet wounds . Enos Kan- denga was badly wounded and taken to Harare Hospital as was a teacher , Mr. Eddison Chivongodza , who was shot in the shoulder . Two soldiers then went around the classrooms ...
... taken . It seems to me that it often means little . To have the effects of witchcraft identified in a patient serves , frequently , as a warning to the family to put their house in order . Sometimes , however , accusa- tions reverberate ...
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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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