Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcraft and the occult in postcolonial Africa /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. |
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| Description: | xiii, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4698122 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Magical interpretations and material realities: an introduction Henrietta
- 2. Delusions of development and the enrichment of witchcraft discourses in
- 3. Cannibal transformations: colonialism and commodification in the
- 4. Vulture men, campus cultists and teenaged witches: modern magics in Nigerian popular media
- 5. Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy: Pentecostalism and laughter in urban
- 6. Black market, free market: anti-witchcraft shrines and fetishes among the
- 7. Betrayal or affirmation? Transformations in witchcraft technologies of power, danger and agency among the Tuareg of Niger
- 8. Save our skins: structural adjustment, morality and the occult in
- 9. Witchcraft in the new South Africa: from colonial superstition to postcolonial Reality?
- 10. On living in a world with witches: everyday epistemology and spiritual insecurity in a modern African city (Soweto)
- 11. Witchcraft, development and paranoia in Cameroon: interactions between popular, academic and State discourse
