Debating witchcraft in Africa : the "Magritte Effect" /
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| Imprint: | Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, [2018] |
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| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12020597 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface
- Witchcraft in Africa Debating the "Magritte Effect"; PART I; 1. "This Is Not a Witch. About the Magritte Effect in Matters of Witchcraft"; About the Magritte effect in the case of witchcraft; Three cases of witchcraft attacks; The ideal type of the witchcraft crisis; For a sociology of the witchcraft crisis; What is at stake?; PART II; 2. Witchcraft and Discourse Genres: From Intimate Stories to Public Rumours; 3. For a Hermeneutics of Witchcraft; 4. Magritte's Multiplicities and Warnier's Inspirations; Introduction
- Words and Meanings: SourcesI: Biblical translations; II: Ethnographic Sources; Conclusion; 5. From One Crisis to Another: Afrodystopia; 6. The Incompleteness of the African Subject; 7. Witchcraft: A Knowledge that Defies Knowing?; PART III; 8. The Unfathomable Lightness of the Witch; Back cover