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Author Smith, James Howard.

Title Bewitching development [electronic resource] : witchcraft and the reinvention of development in neoliberal Kenya / James Howard Smith.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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Description xv, 269 p. : ill.
Series Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Bewitching development : the disintegration and reinvention of development in Kenya -- I still exist! Taita historicity -- Development's other : witchcraft as development through the looking glass -- "Each household is a kingdom" : development and witchcraft at home -- "Dot com will die seriously!" spatiotemporal miscommunication and competing sovereignties in Taita thought and ritual -- NGOs, gender, and sovereign child -- Democracy victorious: exorcising witchcraft from development -- Conclusion: Tempopolitics, or why development should not be defined as the improvement of living standards.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Taita (African people) -- Social life and customs.
Taita (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Witchcraft -- Kenya -- Taita Hills.
Economic development -- Kenya -- Taita Hills.
Taita Hills (Kenya) -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226764573 (cloth alk. paper)
0226764575 (cloth alk. paper)
9780226764580 (pbk. alk. paper)
0226764583 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780226764597 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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