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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... tell him what I thought because they contained an un- canny prognosis . The little girl died a year later of an infectious disease . She had never been born entirely . [ ibid . , 107 ] I offer Jung's story not to suggest strong ...
... tell them where they could find comrades . They beat us whether we knew or not . But we never told them . " The children expressed their horror at the killing they had wit- nessed . They often stressed that the victims were innocent of ...
... tell them , he will talk . The old man would rather die than cause his grandson harm . He talks . " How many ? " Describe their weapons , their clothes . What did they tell him ? " Where are they going ? " " WHERE ARE THEY GOING ...
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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 |