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Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcraft and the occult in postcolonial Africa / edited by Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLondon ; Routledge, 2001Description: xiii, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415258669
  • 0415258677 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Modernity, witchcraft and the occult in postcolonial Africa
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF1584 MAG
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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