Todd Sanders (ed.)

Magical Interpretations, Material Realities

Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa
Herausgeber: Moore, Henrietta L; Sanders, Todd

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume sets out recent thinking on witchcraft in Africa, paying particular attention to variations in meanings and practices. Using recent ethnographic materials from across the continent, the volume explores how witchcraft articulates with particular modern settings. Examples discussed in the text include 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 158mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780415258678
• ISBN-10: 0415258677
• Artikelnr.: 22409604

Autorenporträt

Henrietta L. Moore is Professor of Anthropology and Todd Sanders is a Research Fellow. Both are in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Magical interpretations and material realities: an introduction
Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders 2. Delusions of development and the
enrichment of witchcraft discourses in Cameroon Francis B. Nyamnjoh 3.
Cannibal transformations: colonialism and commodification in the Sierra
Leone hinterland Rosalind Shaw 4. Vulture men, campus cultists and teenaged
witches: modern magics in Nigerian popular media Misty L. Bastian 5.
Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy: Pentecostalism and laughter in urban
Malawi Rijk van Dijk 6. Black market, free market: anti-witchcraft shrines
and fetishes among the Akan Jane Parish 7. Betrayal or affirmation?
Transformations in witchcraft technologies of power, danger and agency
among the Tuareg of Niger Susan Rasmussen 8. Save our skins: structural
adjustment, morality and the occult in Tanzania Todd Sanders 9. Witchcraft
in the new South Africa: from colonial superstition to postcolonial
Reality? Isak Niehaus 10. On living in a world with witches: everyday
epistemology and spiritual insecurity in a modern African city (Soweto)
Adam Ashforth 11. Witchcraft, development and paranoia in Cameroon:
interactions between popular, academic and State discourse Cyprian Fisiy
and Peter Geschiere