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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. -- Dr. M.A. Ramphele, deputy vice chancellor, University of Cape Town

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. - Murray Last, editor, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 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. - Arthur Kleinman, professor of anthropology at Harvard University 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. - Dr. M.A. Ramphele, deputy vice chancellor, University of Cape Town

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A graduate of Cape Town, Delhi, and Harvard universities, Dr. Pamela Reynolds has been a Research Fellow at the Universities of Zimbabwe and Cape Town. She is the author of several children’s books and of Growing up in a Divided Society: The Contexts of Childhood in South Africa and Children in Crossroads: Cognition and Society in South Africa.

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