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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... Turn of the Screw . I use this story to frame my exploration of Zezuru notions of evil and childhood for several reasons . First , for fun : certainly mine and , perhaps , yours . Second , because I want to use James's story to recreate ...
... Turn of the Screw . A summary of the chapter's themes follows . For Zezuru , children are pure : they represent nonevil . They belong to the shades . Their innocence does not imply a state of passivity . Rather , children's own ...
... turn of the screw ” —the particular twist of pain in the tale— resides in what the governess is doing to the children . They , on their side , try constantly to accommodate themselves to her vision . In the end , the girl flees from 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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