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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
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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
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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