Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe

“Professor Pamela Reynolds is perhaps the leading Africa-based anthropologist conducting research on the ethnography of the young, and on the effects of violence upon them. The author’s style is vivid, and her passion for those she works with is evident. This is neither a conventional text nor conventional anthropology. Professor Reynolds is drawing on her work with some sixty healers in three areas of Mashonaland in Zimbabwe. Her material on their training and techniques and the nature of their knowledge contains ethnography and analysis, which are in many ways ahead of their time.”
“In Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe, the South African anthropologist and child development expert Pamela Reynolds has written a fascinating and important account of traditional healing as it relates to children and childhood in Zimbabwe. This lens brings powerful insights to the study of traditional healing practices applied to and through children. This book will find a special place in the new wave of ethnographies in medical anthropology—there is nothing else quite like it.”
“Professor Reynolds’s work is of immense importance to the understanding of narratives of healing in Southern Africa. The work of traditional healers is not uncomplicated and needs to be continually examined. This text contributes to such an examination.”