| Description |
viii, 344 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 76
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
African witchcraft : from ethnography to critique / Elias Bongmba -- "Witches" as superior intellects : challenging a cross-cultural superstition / Barry Hallen -- Sorcery forces of life and death among the Yaka of Congo / Rene Devisch -- Ancestors and witches : explanations and the ideology of individual power in northern Zambia / George Clement Bond -- Utsai as ethical discourse : a critique of power from Mijikenda in coastal Kenya / Diane M. Ciekawy -- Truth-on-balance : knowing the opaque other in Tswapong wisdom divination / Richard Werbner -- Witchcraft in modern Africa as virtualized boundary conditions of the kinship order / Wim van Binsbergen -- Epistemological and ideological issues about witchcraft in African studies : a response to Rene Devisch, Elias Bongmba, and Richard Werbner / E. C. Eze -- Witchcraft and racecraft : invisible ontology and its sensible manifestations / Karen E. Fields. |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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| Added Author |
Bond, George C.
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Ciekawy, Diane M., 1958-
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| ISBN |
0896802205 (alk. paper) |
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