Magical Interpretations, Material Realities : Modernity, Witchcraft, and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa

by Moore, Henrietta L.; Sanders, Todd

• ISBN13: 9780203398258
• ISBN10: 0203398254
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134575572
• Copyright: 2003-11-17
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Summary

This volume sets out recent thinking on withccraft in Africa, paying particular attention to variations in meanings and practices.

Table of Contents

Magical interpretations and material realities: an introduction

Delusions of development and the enrichment of witchcraft discourses in Cameroon

Cannibal transformations: colonialism and commodification in the Sierra Leone hinterland

Vulture men, campus cultists and teenaged witches: modern magics in Nigerian popular media

Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy: Pentecostalism and laughter in urban

Black market, free market: anti-witchcraft shrines and fetishes among the

Betrayal or affirmation? Transformations in witchcraft technologies of power, danger and agency among the Tuareg of

Save our skins: structural adjustment, morality and the occult in Tanzania

Witchcraft in the new South Africa: from colonial superstition to postcolonial Reality?

On living in a world with witches: everyday epistemology and spiritual insecurity in a modern African city (Soweto)

Witchcraft, development and paranoia in Cameroon: interactions between popular, academic and State discourse

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