Witchcraft, intimacy, and trust :
Geschiere, Peter,
Witchcraft, intimacy, and trust : Africa in comparison / Witchcraft, intimacy, & trust Peter Geschiere. - Chicago The University of Chicago 2013 - xxviii, 293 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 267-285).
The dangers of home: ethnographical and conceptual explorations -- Witchcraft, intimacy, and changing perceptions of distance: African examples -- To trust a witch -- Comparative perspectives I: witches, neighbors, and the closure of "the House" in Europe -- Comparative perspectives II: Candomblé de Bahia: between witchcraft and religion -- Further comparisons: Melanesia and Java: ontological differences or aphasia before "the uncanny" -- Back to trust: new distances, new challenges.
9780226047584 (cloth : alkaline paper) 9780226047614 (paperback : alkaline paper)
2013007997
Witchcraft--Africa.
Witchcraft--Social aspects.
Witchcraft--Psychological aspects.
Intimacy (Psychology)
Trust--Africa.
BF1584.A35 / G47 2013
133.4/309
Witchcraft, intimacy, and trust : Africa in comparison / Witchcraft, intimacy, & trust Peter Geschiere. - Chicago The University of Chicago 2013 - xxviii, 293 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 267-285).
The dangers of home: ethnographical and conceptual explorations -- Witchcraft, intimacy, and changing perceptions of distance: African examples -- To trust a witch -- Comparative perspectives I: witches, neighbors, and the closure of "the House" in Europe -- Comparative perspectives II: Candomblé de Bahia: between witchcraft and religion -- Further comparisons: Melanesia and Java: ontological differences or aphasia before "the uncanny" -- Back to trust: new distances, new challenges.
9780226047584 (cloth : alkaline paper) 9780226047614 (paperback : alkaline paper)
2013007997
Witchcraft--Africa.
Witchcraft--Social aspects.
Witchcraft--Psychological aspects.
Intimacy (Psychology)
Trust--Africa.
BF1584.A35 / G47 2013
133.4/309