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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... victim . Even fire — so says the account of another — was built all round him , but it did not scorch him , being mysteriously quenched . Tired of the repeated though futile efforts of his enemies to ? ✓ kill him , Chaminuka revealed ...
... victim of witchcraft . If the patient accepts the diagnosis , she can drop out of the qualifying process . The individual can direct family and community attention onto herself through ill- ness ( especially effective in a wage earner ...
... victim of his governess's malevolent imaginings ? Was he a sacrifice ? Did he even see the apparitions ? Was he ... victims of evil are often the innocent ( children ) and inadequate ( adults ) . Healing aims to establish , reestab- lish ...
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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 |