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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47739625 Title: Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa Author: Henrietta L Moore; Todd Sanders Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. ISBN/ISSN: 0415258669 9780415258661 0415258677 9780415258678 0415241545 9780415241540 0415241553 9780415241557 OCLC:47739625

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Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa

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Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa

Author:	Henrietta L Moore; Todd Sanders
Publisher:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	This volume sets out recent thinking on withccraft in Africa, paying particular attention to variations in meanings and practices.
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Henrietta L Moore; Todd Sanders Find more information about:
ISBN:	0415258669 9780415258661 0415258677 9780415258678 0415241545 9780415241540 0415241553 9780415241557
OCLC Number:	47739625
Description:	xiii, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	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.
Responsibility:	edited by Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders.
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