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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... terrorists rounded up the pupils and moved them out of the buildings to the centre of the school grounds . " At this stage the ground patrol of the army called for assistance from the air force and five helicopters flew to the scene ...
... terrorist . " At this point , a lone sentry is reported to have opened fire on the security forces . " After the terrorists opened fire the security forces did the same thing , " reported Supt . Carse . " Panic ensued with people ...
... terrorists had been seen on a hill feature close to the village . According to a relative of one of the dead women , the terrorists scattered when se- curity force aircraft crossed the feature . At least one of the terrorists , he said ...
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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 |