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245 0 0 _aMagical interpretations, material realities :
_bmodernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa /
_cedited by Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2001.
300 _axiii, 253 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine 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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