| Description |
xiii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: List of figures ix -- List of contributors xi 1 Magical interpretations and material realities: an introduction 1 -- HENRIETTA L. MOORE AND TODD SANDERS --2 Delusions of development and the enrichment of witchcraft discourses in Cameroon 28 -- FRANCIS B. NYAMNJOH --3 Cannibal transformations: colonialism and commodification in the Sierra Leone hinterland 50 -- ROSALIND SHAW --4 Vulture men, campus cultists and teenaged witches: modern magics in Nigerian popular media 71 -- MISTY L. BASTIAN --5 Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy: Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi 97 -- RIJK VAN DIJK --6 Black market, free market: anti-witchcraft shrines and fetishes among the Akan 118 -- JANE PARISH --7 Betrayal or affirmation? Transformations in witchcraft technologies of power, danger and agency among the Tuareg of Niger 136 -- SUSAN RASMUSSEN --8 Save our skins: structural adjustment, morality and the occult in Tanzania 160 -- TODD SANDERS --9 Witchcraft in the new South Africa: from colonial superstition to postcolonial reality? 184 -- ISAK NIEHAUS --10 On living in a world with witches: everyday epistemology and spiritual insecurity in a modern African city (Soweto) 206 -- ADAM ASHFORTH --11 Witchcraft, development and paranoia in Cameroon: interactions between popular, academic and state discourse 226 -- CYPRIAN F. FISIY AND PETER GESCHIERE -- |
| Summary |
This volume sets out recent thinking on witchcraft in Africa, paying particular attention to variations in meanings and practices. It examines the way different people in different contexts are making sense of what 'witchcraft' is and what it might mean. For example: the State in Cameroon; Pentecostalism in Malawi; the university system in Nigeria and the IMF in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. The editors provide a timely overview and reconsideration of longstanding anthropological debate about 'African witchcraft', while simultaneously raising broader concerns about the theories of the western social sciences. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Occultism -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Witchcraft -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Public administration -- Information technology -- Case studies.
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Political leadership -- Case studies.
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Internet in public administration -- Case studies.
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Information technology -- Political aspects -- Case studies.
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Knowledge management -- Case studies.
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Electronic government information -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Moore, Henrietta L., 1957-
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Sanders, Todd, 1965-
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| LC no. |
2001048185 |
| ISBN |
0415258669 |
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0415258677 paperback |
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