Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa / edited by Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.Description: xiii, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0415258669
- 0415258677 (pbk.)
- 133.4/3/096 21
- BF1584.A357 M34 2001
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| BF1566 .P3 Witchcraft: European and African. | BF1576 .G635 2011 The Salem witch hunt : | BF1584.A35 G47 2013 Witchcraft, intimacy, and trust : | BF1584.A357 M34 2001 Magical interpretations, material realities : | BF1584.A53 H3 Bantu "witchcraft" and Christian morality. | BF1584.A53 W58 2001 Witchcraft dialogues : | BF1584.G5 B36 1982 The practice of witchcraft in Ghana / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: List of figures ix -- List of contributors xi 1 Magical interpretations and material realities: an introduction 1 -- HENRIETTA L. MOORE AND TODD SANDERS --2 Delusions of development and the enrichment of witchcraft discourses in Cameroon 28 -- FRANCIS B. NYAMNJOH --3 Cannibal transformations: colonialism and commodification in the Sierra Leone hinterland 50 -- ROSALIND SHAW --4 Vulture men, campus cultists and teenaged witches: modern magics in Nigerian popular media 71 -- MISTY L. BASTIAN --5 Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy: Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi 97 -- RIJK VAN DIJK --6 Black market, free market: anti-witchcraft shrines and fetishes among the Akan 118 -- JANE PARISH --7 Betrayal or affirmation? Transformations in witchcraft technologies of power, danger and agency among the Tuareg of Niger 136 -- SUSAN RASMUSSEN --8 Save our skins: structural adjustment, morality and the occult in Tanzania 160 -- TODD SANDERS --9 Witchcraft in the new South Africa: from colonial superstition to postcolonial reality? 184 -- ISAK NIEHAUS --10 On living in a world with witches: everyday epistemology and spiritual insecurity in a modern African city (Soweto) 206 -- ADAM ASHFORTH --11 Witchcraft, development and paranoia in Cameroon: interactions between popular, academic and state discourse 226 -- CYPRIAN F. FISIY AND PETER GESCHIERE --.
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