Research Catalog

Title

Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E.A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Olsen, William C.
• Beek, W. E. A. van

Description

ix, 392 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Africa
• Good and evil
• Africa > Moral conditions > Case studies
• Ethnology > Africa
• Good and evil > Social aspects > Africa
• Morale sociale > Afrique
• Bien et mal > Aspect religieux > Afrique

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E.A. van Beek and William C. Olsen -- Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva -- Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika -- The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok -- Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet -- Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch -- Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal -- Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E.A. van Beek -- Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy -- Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla -- Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley -- Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen -- Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen -- The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green -- Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp -- The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth.

Call Number

Sc E 16-678

ISBN

• 9780253017437
• 0253017432
• 9780253017475
• 0253017475
• 9780253017505 (canceled/invalid)
• 0253017505 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015017065

OCLC

894026186

Title

Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E.A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin.

Publisher

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Olsen, William C., editor.

Beek, W. E. A. van, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-678