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Studies in witchcraft, magic, war, and peace in Africa
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Studies in witchcraft, magic, war, and peace in Africa

著者: Beatrice Nicolini
出版商: Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2006.
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Contains essays which offers opportunities towards a better understanding of African societies and their historical role in political and military conflicts, and also within peace-building processes.  再读一些...

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类型/形式: études diverses
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所有的著者/提供者: Beatrice Nicolini
ISBN: 0773457275 9780773457270
OCLC号码: 70219993
描述: xix, 383 p. ; 23 cm.
内容: Part 1. Magical Practices and Witchcraft during Warfare in the African Continent (XIX-XX Centuries); Dafne Accoroni - Healing Practices Among the Sengalese Community in Paris; Godwin Ehi Azenabor - The Idea of Witchcraft and the Challenge of Modern Science; Fernanda Claudio - Cloth, Hoes, and Beads: Chikunda Domination, the Warlord Kanyemba, and the Chapoto Chieftaincy in Dande, Zimbabwe; Linda Giles - The Role of Spirits in Swahili Coastal Society; Alan Kirkaldy - Vhuloi and Witch-Hunting in Late Nineteenth-Century Vendaland; Beatrice Nicolini - Notes on Magical Practices in Zanzibar and Pemba; The Role of the Waganga during Colonial Times; Maxwell Osusu and Godfrey N. Uzoigwe - Nanny's Apron Strings: Magic, 'Medicine,' Witchcraft and Warfare in Colonial and Post-Colonial West Africa; Meshack Owino - Vifo Na Mazishi: The Impact of War on Kenya African Soldiers' Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Death and Burials in Colonial Kenya; Ana Cristina Roque - Meeting Artur Murimo Mafumo and His Practices; Part 2. Magical Practices and Witchcraft as Post-Conflict Peace-Building and Community Healing Processes in the African Continent (XIX-XX Centuries); George Olusola Ajibade - Hearthstones: Religion, Ethics and Medicine in the Healing Process in the Traditional Yoruba Society; Nathalie Arnold - With 'Ripe' Eyes You Will See: Occult Conflicts in Pemba's Days of Caning, Zanzibar 1964-1968; Sophia Beal - Terra Sonambula: Mythmaking and the Naparama in the Work of Mia Couto; Jesse Benjamin - Squatters, Resistance to "Development," and Magic as a Tool of Subaltern Power: A Case from Coastal Kenya; Noah Butler - The Materialization of Magic: Islamic Talisman in West Africa; Paulo Granjo - Back Home: Post-War Cleansing Rituals in Mozambique; Sam Kasule - Possession, Trance, Ritual and Popular Performance: The Transformation of Theatre in Post Idi Amin Uganda; Stephen C. Lubkemann - Where to be an Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-Political Worlds among Displaced Mozambicans; Terence Ranger - African Religion, Witchcraft, and the Liberation War in Zimbabwe.
责任: edited by Beatrice Nicolini.

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"...this volume brings together a wide range of senior and junior scholars who address issues of magical practice in warfare and post-conflict peace making... Terence Ranger also contributes his 再读一些...

 
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