Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe Paperback / softback
by Pamela Reynolds
Paperback / softback
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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 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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Ohio University Press
- Publication Date:12/09/2023
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- ISBN:9780821411223
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Ohio University Press
- Publication Date:12/09/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780821411223