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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... wanted to keep an eye on me , too . They had cause to be concerned as , during the war , three black researchers from the University of Zimbabwe had fallen foul of vil- lagers who suspected them of having given information on guerrilla ...
... wanted us to 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 ...
... wanted only to swindle money from the people - a thing to which the Government " takes very serious exception . We are a people's Government working towards unity among all our people and we will not tolerate people who go around sowing ...
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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 |