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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... witches that confirms the above observations . Chavunduka ( 1982 , 5 ) gives a broad definition for the Zezuru word for a witch - muroyi ( plural , va- royi ) . It means a witch , a sorcerer , a poisoner , a person who fails to carry ...
... witches per- form evil rites that may include the sacrifice of a baby ; that the chil- dren of witches are all suspect ; that a witch kills her own first born ; and that witches cause newborn children to appear dead , then steal them ...
... witch - hunting and other sinister practices associated with witches , spirits and evil forces . Herald , 22 June 1981 MREWA " WITCH - HUNTER ” IS BANNED by Herald Reporters The Government has banned a spirit medium , Mr Size Kapara ...
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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 |