Witchcraft dialogues :
Witchcraft dialogues : anthropological and philosophical exchanges /
edited by George Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy.
- Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2001.
- viii, 344 p. ; 22 cm.
- Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 76 .
- Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 76. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Contested Domains in the Dialogues of "Witchcraft" / African Witchcraft: From Ethnography to Critique / "Witches" as Superior Intellects: Challenging a Cross-Cultural Superstition / Sorcery Forces of Life and Death among the Yaka of Congo / Ancestors and Witches: Explanations and the Ideology of Individual Power in Northern Zambia / Utsai as Ethical Discourse: A Critique of Power from Mijikenda in Coastal Kenya / Truth-on-Balance: Knowing the Opaque Other in Tswapong Wisdom Divination / Witchcraft in Modern Africa as Virtualized Boundary Conditions of the Kinship Order / Epistemological and Ideological Issues about Witchcraft in African Studies: A Response to Rene Devisch, Elias Bongmba, and Richard Werbner / George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy -- Elias Bongmba -- Barry Hallen -- Rene Devisch -- George Clement Bond -- Diane M. Ciekawy -- Richard Werbner -- Wim van Binsbergen -- E. C. Eze -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Witchcraft and Racecraft: Invisible Ontology and Its Sensible Manifestations / Conclusions: Fabricating the Occult, Distancing the Familiar / Karen E. Fields -- George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy. 9.
0896802205 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2001036280
Witchcraft--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
BF1584.A53 / W58 2001
133.4/3/096
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Contested Domains in the Dialogues of "Witchcraft" / African Witchcraft: From Ethnography to Critique / "Witches" as Superior Intellects: Challenging a Cross-Cultural Superstition / Sorcery Forces of Life and Death among the Yaka of Congo / Ancestors and Witches: Explanations and the Ideology of Individual Power in Northern Zambia / Utsai as Ethical Discourse: A Critique of Power from Mijikenda in Coastal Kenya / Truth-on-Balance: Knowing the Opaque Other in Tswapong Wisdom Divination / Witchcraft in Modern Africa as Virtualized Boundary Conditions of the Kinship Order / Epistemological and Ideological Issues about Witchcraft in African Studies: A Response to Rene Devisch, Elias Bongmba, and Richard Werbner / George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy -- Elias Bongmba -- Barry Hallen -- Rene Devisch -- George Clement Bond -- Diane M. Ciekawy -- Richard Werbner -- Wim van Binsbergen -- E. C. Eze -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Witchcraft and Racecraft: Invisible Ontology and Its Sensible Manifestations / Conclusions: Fabricating the Occult, Distancing the Familiar / Karen E. Fields -- George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy. 9.
0896802205 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2001036280
Witchcraft--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
BF1584.A53 / W58 2001
133.4/3/096