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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... witchcraft , children are seen as caught in the midst of the battle between good and evil . Zezuru links between witches and spirits are drawn . Spirits can kill and , we learn , there are ways to kill witches . The conflict between ...
... witchcraft resulting from other people's jealousy and should take precautions by protecting themselves . ( Ap- pendix 15 gives two reports from national newspapers on the scourge of belief in witchcraft and on the effect of superstition ...
... Witchcraft , Oracles , and Magic among the Azande . Oxford : Clarendon Press . 1965. Theories of Primitive Religion . Oxford : Clarendon Press . 1981. A History of Anthropological Thought . London : Faber and Faber . 1982. " Witchcraft ...
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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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