Trauma e Limpeza Ritual de Veteranos em Moçambique
This article presents and discusses the cleansing rituals performed by healers on veterans of the Mozambican civil war, in the south of the country. Those rituals recycled treatments previously used for other stressful social situations, together with their rationale. Such cleansing rituals had a re...
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Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
2011-09-01
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| description | This article presents and discusses the cleansing rituals performed by healers on veterans of the Mozambican civil war, in the south of the country. Those rituals recycled treatments previously used for other stressful social situations, together with their rationale. Such cleansing rituals had a remarkably successful contribution to veterans’ social reintegration, largely due to their coherence with the local systems of misfortune interpretation, with the problem they intended to solve, and with well known and respected proceedings. However, their role was deeper than the reintegration of individual veterans; they also contributed to the acceptance of the former enemies as “people like the other” and of the pacific democratic competition, as a substitute to the military confrontation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3e075ae470054057b63f0c9651a99e112024-02-13T15:51:35ZengInstituto Universitário de LisboaCadernos de Estudos Africanos1645-37942182-74002011-09-0121436910.4000/cea.204Trauma e Limpeza Ritual de Veteranos em MoçambiquePaulo GranjoThis article presents and discusses the cleansing rituals performed by healers on veterans of the Mozambican civil war, in the south of the country. Those rituals recycled treatments previously used for other stressful social situations, together with their rationale. Such cleansing rituals had a remarkably successful contribution to veterans’ social reintegration, largely due to their coherence with the local systems of misfortune interpretation, with the problem they intended to solve, and with well known and respected proceedings. However, their role was deeper than the reintegration of individual veterans; they also contributed to the acceptance of the former enemies as “people like the other” and of the pacific democratic competition, as a substitute to the military confrontation.https://journals.openedition.org/cea/204Mozambiquecleansing ritualscivil warviolencetraumahealers |
| spellingShingle | Paulo Granjo Trauma e Limpeza Ritual de Veteranos em Moçambique Cadernos de Estudos Africanos Mozambique cleansing rituals civil war violence trauma healers |
| title | Trauma e Limpeza Ritual de Veteranos em Moçambique |
| title_full | Trauma e Limpeza Ritual de Veteranos em Moçambique |
| title_fullStr | Trauma e Limpeza Ritual de Veteranos em Moçambique |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trauma e Limpeza Ritual de Veteranos em Moçambique |
| title_short | Trauma e Limpeza Ritual de Veteranos em Moçambique |
| title_sort | trauma e limpeza ritual de veteranos em mocambique |
| topic | Mozambique cleansing rituals civil war violence trauma healers |
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