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| Title: | The Training of Traditional Healers in Mashonaland |
| Author: | Reynolds, Pamela |
| Book title: | The professionalisation of African medicine |
| Year: | 1986 |
| Pages: | 165-187 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
| Subjects: | healers psychotherapy Cultural Roles Health, Nutrition, and Medicine |
| Abstract: | This paper is concerned with the privileged position of knowledge by traditional healers and the potential power that this position offers in Mashonaland, Zimbabwe. Who are these healers and how do they acquire their knowledge? What is the nature of their knowledge? And what are the consequences of professionalisation of traditional healers? Particularly, the author mexamines from whom, at what age, with what leeway for innivation and in accord with what checks and balances traditional healers in Mashonaland learn the use of plants, symbolic systems and social and psychological analysis. Notes, ref. |
