Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Moore, Henrietta L., 1957-, Sanders, Todd, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Magical interpretations and material realities: an introduction / Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders
  • Delusions of development and the enrichment of witchcraft discourses in Cameroon / Francis B. Nyamnjoh
  • Cannibal transformations : colonialism and commodification in the Sierra Leone hinterland / Rosalind Shaw
  • Vulture men, campus cultists and teenaged witches : modern magics in Nigerian popular media / Misty L. Bastian
  • Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy : Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi / Rijk van Dijk
  • Black market, free market : anti-witchcraft shrines and fetishes among the Akan / Jane Parish
  • Betrayal or affirmation? Transformations in witchcraft technologies of power, danger and agency among the Tuareg of Niger / Susan Rasmussen
  • Save our skins : structural adjustment, morality and the occult in Tanzania / Todd Sanders
  • Witchcraft in the new South Africa : from colonial superstition to postcolonial reality? / Isak Niehaus
  • On living in a world with witches : everyday epistemology and spiritual insecurity in a modern African city (Soweto) / Adam Ashforth
  • Witchcraft, development and paranoia in Cameroon : interactions between popular, academic and state discourse / Cyprian F. Fisiy and Peter Geschiere.