Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe

Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 information

ISBN: 9780821411216
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Imprint: Ohio University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 305.23096891
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 183
Weight: 562g
Height: 230mm
Width: 159mm
Spine width: 20mm