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Traditional healers and childhood in Zimbabwe
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Traditional healers and childhood in Zimbabwe

Author: Pamela Reynolds
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Reynolds, Pamela, 1944-
Traditional healers and childhood in Zimbabwe.
Athens : Ohio University Press, c1996
(OCoLC)604372911
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Pamela Reynolds
ISBN: 0821411217 9780821411216 0821411225 9780821411223
OCLC Number: 31755255
Description: xxxix, 183 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Training of Traditional Healers --
Dreams and the Constitution of Self --
Children of Tribulation: The Need and the Means to Heal War Trauma --
Zezuru Turn of the Screw: On Children's Exposure to Evil --
Children on Herbs, Healing, and Healers.
Responsibility: Pamela Reynolds.

Abstract:

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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