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Witchcraft dialogues : anthropological and philosophical exchanges / edited by George Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Research in international studies. Africa series ; ; no. 76.Publication details: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2001.Description: viii, 344 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0896802205 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 133.4/3/096 21
LOC classification:
  • BF1584.A53 W58 2001
Contents:
Introduction: Contested Domains in the Dialogues of "Witchcraft" / George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy -- 1. African Witchcraft: From Ethnography to Critique / Elias Bongmba -- 2. "Witches" as Superior Intellects: Challenging a Cross-Cultural Superstition / Barry Hallen -- 3. Sorcery Forces of Life and Death among the Yaka of Congo / Rene Devisch -- 4. Ancestors and Witches: Explanations and the Ideology of Individual Power in Northern Zambia / George Clement Bond -- 5. Utsai as Ethical Discourse: A Critique of Power from Mijikenda in Coastal Kenya / Diane M. Ciekawy -- 6. Truth-on-Balance: Knowing the Opaque Other in Tswapong Wisdom Divination / Richard Werbner -- 7. Witchcraft in Modern Africa as Virtualized Boundary Conditions of the Kinship Order / Wim van Binsbergen -- 8. Epistemological and Ideological Issues about Witchcraft in African Studies: A Response to Rene Devisch, Elias Bongmba, and Richard Werbner / E. C. Eze --
9. Witchcraft and Racecraft: Invisible Ontology and Its Sensible Manifestations / Karen E. Fields -- Conclusions: Fabricating the Occult, Distancing the Familiar / George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Contested Domains in the Dialogues of "Witchcraft" / George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy -- 1. African Witchcraft: From Ethnography to Critique / Elias Bongmba -- 2. "Witches" as Superior Intellects: Challenging a Cross-Cultural Superstition / Barry Hallen -- 3. Sorcery Forces of Life and Death among the Yaka of Congo / Rene Devisch -- 4. Ancestors and Witches: Explanations and the Ideology of Individual Power in Northern Zambia / George Clement Bond -- 5. Utsai as Ethical Discourse: A Critique of Power from Mijikenda in Coastal Kenya / Diane M. Ciekawy -- 6. Truth-on-Balance: Knowing the Opaque Other in Tswapong Wisdom Divination / Richard Werbner -- 7. Witchcraft in Modern Africa as Virtualized Boundary Conditions of the Kinship Order / Wim van Binsbergen -- 8. Epistemological and Ideological Issues about Witchcraft in African Studies: A Response to Rene Devisch, Elias Bongmba, and Richard Werbner / E. C. Eze --

9. Witchcraft and Racecraft: Invisible Ontology and Its Sensible Manifestations / Karen E. Fields -- Conclusions: Fabricating the Occult, Distancing the Familiar / George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy.

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