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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... tion against immoral behavior , and to make connections between the past and the present . The shades of witches ( varoyi ) or lost souls ( ngozi ) use dreams for nefarious ends , to cause harm , demand retribu- tion , or scare the ...
... tion is to transgress and lay oneself open to charges of evil intention . The second error committed by the governess leads from the first : she tried to handle the situation alone , isolating the children from their one kinsman and ...
... tion they received , " explained Supt . Carse . " As they entered the kraal area it was obvious to them that a meeting was in progress ... ... and it was obvious to the African members of the patrol that it was a ter- rorist who was ...
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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 |