The Gospel Sounds Like the Witch's Spell
Kiyoshi Umeya
Broschiertes Buch

The Gospel Sounds Like the Witch's Spell

Dealing with Misfortune among the Jopadhola of Eastern Uganda

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The Gospel Sounds Like the Witch's Spell is a highly detailed ethnography about how the Jopadhola in eastern Uganda talk about, interpret and cope with death, illness and other misfortunes. The book presents a provocative discussion that critiques the idea of the revival of witchcraft in the neo-liberalised contemporary world, as represented by the 'modernity model of witchcraft', and attempts to formulate a 'spiderweb model' that connects witchcraft to contemporary society in a more complex manner. The book is a unique ethnography of the collective memory of indigenous knowledge and local his...