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Witchcraft, intimacy, and trust : Africa in comparison / Peter Geschiere.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago The University of Chicago 2013Description: xxviii, 293 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226047584 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  • 9780226047614 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Other title:
  • Witchcraft, intimacy, & trust
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 133.4/309 23
LOC classification:
  • BF1584.A35 G47 2013
Contents:
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.
List(s) this item appears in: Africana
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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.

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