Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe

by Pamela Reynolds

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821411225
• ISBN13: 9780821411223
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"