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MAGICAL INTERPRETATIONS, MATERIAL REALITIES
MODERNITY, WITCHCRAFT AND THE OCCULT IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA |
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Henrietta L. Moore (Editor), Todd Sanders (Editor) |
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Electronic book text |
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£31.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
113457553X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781134575534 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2003 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Synopsis: |
'Magical Interpretations, Material Realities brings together many of today's best scholars of contemporary Africa. The theme of "witchcraft" has long been associated with exoticizing portraits of a "traditional" Africa, but this volume takes the question of occult as a point of entry into the moral politics of some very modern African realities.' - James Ferguson, University of California, USA'These essays bear eloquent testimony to the ongoing presence and power of the occult imaginary, and of the intimate connection between global capitalism and local cosmology, in postcolonial Africa. A major contribution to scholarship that aims to rework the divide between modernity and tradition.' - Charles Piot, Duke University, USAThis 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.Using recent ethnographic materials from across the continent, the volume explores how witchcraft articulates with particular modern settings 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 long-standing anthropological debates about 'African witchcraft', while simultaneously raising broader concerns about the theories of the western social sciences. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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Non-returnable |
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