Magical Interpretations, Material Realities Modernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa
| Daljnji autori: | , |
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| Format: | Ouvrage |
| Jezik: | Anglais |
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Abingdon, New York (N. Y.) :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Izdanje: | First published 2001, reprinted 2004 |
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Sadržaj:
- Magical interpretations and material realities: an introduction / Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders
- Delusions of development and the enrichment of witchcraft discourses in Cameroon / Francis B. Nyamnjoh
- Cannibal transformations: colonialism and commodification in the Sierra Leone hinterland / Rosalind Shaw
- Vulture men, campus cultists and teenaged witches: modern magics in Nigerian popular media / Misty L. Bastian
- Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy: Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi / Rijk van Dijk
- Black market, free market: anti-witchcraft shrines and fetishes among the Akan / Jane Parish
- Betrayal or affirmation? Transformations in witchcraft technologies of power, danger and agency among the Tuareg of Niger / Susan Rasmussen
- Save our skins: structural adjustment, morality and the occult in Tanzania / Todd Sanders
- Witchcraft in the new South Africa: from colonial superstition to postcolonial reality? / Isak Niehaus
- On living in a world with witches: everyday epistemology and spiritual insecurity in a modern African city (Soweto) / Adam Ashforth
- Witchcraft, development and paranoia in Cameroon: interactions between popular, academic and state discourse / Cyprian F. Fisiy and Peter Geschiere