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Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa / edited by Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.Description: xiii, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415258669
  • 0415258677 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 133.4/3/096 21
LOC classification:
  • BF1584.A357 M34 2001
Contents:
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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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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