Todd Sanders (ed.)

Magical Interpretations, Material Realities

Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa
Herausgeber: Moore, Henrietta L; Sanders, Todd

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume sets out recent thinking on withccraft in Africa, paying particular attention to variations in meanings and practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780415258661
• ISBN-10: 0415258669
• Artikelnr.: 21716950

Autorenporträt

Henrietta L. Moore is Professor of Anthropology and Todd Sanders is a Research Fellow. Both are in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Magical interpretations and material realities: an introduction
Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders 2. Delusions of development and the
enrichment of witchcraft discourses in Cameroon Francis B. Nyamnjoh 3.
Cannibal transformations: colonialism and commodification in the Sierra
Leone hinterland Rosalind Shaw 4. Vulture men, campus cultists and teenaged
witches: modern magics in Nigerian popular media Misty L. Bastian 5.
Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy: Pentecostalism and laughter in urban
Malawi Rijk van Dijk 6. Black market, free market: anti-witchcraft shrines
and fetishes among the Akan Jane Parish 7. Betrayal or affirmation?
Transformations in witchcraft technologies of power, danger and agency
among the Tuareg of Niger Susan Rasmussen 8. Save our skins: structural
adjustment, morality and the occult in Tanzania Todd Sanders 9. Witchcraft
in the new South Africa: from colonial superstition to postcolonial
Reality? Isak Niehaus 10. On living in a world with witches: everyday
epistemology and spiritual insecurity in a modern African city (Soweto)
Adam Ashforth 11. Witchcraft, development and paranoia in Cameroon:
interactions between popular, academic and State discourse Cyprian Fisiy
and Peter Geschiere