The modernity of witchcraft : politics and the occult in postcolonial Africa = Sorcellerie et politi...
The modernity of witchcraft : politics and the occult in postcolonial Africa = Sorcellerie et politi...
The modernity of witchcraft : politics and the occult in postcolonial Africa = Sorcellerie et politique en Afrique : la viande des autres / Peter Geschiere ; translated by Peter Geschiere and Janet Roitman.
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Charlottesville [Va.] : University Press of Virginia, 1997.
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Date
1997.
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N306.4096711/1
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English
French
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xii, 311 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm.
Contents
Preface to the English Language Edition / Wyatt MacGaffey -- 1. Introduction: Witchcraft as Political Discourse -- 2. A Full Belly: The Maka and the Djambe -- Comparative Interstice 1: The Variable Faces of Sorcery and Witchcraft -- 3. Witchcraft and Local Politics: The Dialectics of Equality and Am...
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Charlottesville [Va.] : University Press of Virginia, 1997.
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Virginia
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1997.
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In the Modernity of Witchcraft, Peter Geschiere uses his own experiences among the Maka and in other parts of eastern and southern Cameroon, as well as other anthropological research, to argue that contemporary ideas and practices of witchcraft are more a response to modern exigencies than a lingering cultural custom. The prevalence of witchcraft,...
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The modernity of witchcraft : politics and the occult in postcolonial Africa = Sorcellerie et politique en Afrique : la viande des autres / Peter Geschiere ; translated by Peter Geschiere and Janet Roitman.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-299) and index.
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N306.4096711/1
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0813917034 :
9780813917023 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813917026 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813917030 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813917034 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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306.4096711
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