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The power of the occult in modern Africa : continuity and innovation in the renewal of African cosmologies / James Kiernan (Ed.).
- Title
- The power of the occult in modern Africa : continuity and innovation in the renewal of African cosmologies / James Kiernan (Ed.).
- Publication
- Berlin : Lit Verlag ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, c2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BL2400 .P69 2006 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Kiernan, J. P. (James Patrick)
- Description
- vii, 243 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Modernity and belonging ; v. 4
- Uniform Title
- Modernity and belonging ; Bd. 4.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Evans-Pritchard and the theoretical demise of the concept of magic / Elias K. Bongmba -- Witchcraft and modernity : thoughts about a strange complicity / Peter Geschiere -- Perversion of power : witchcraft and the sexuality of evil in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Discourses of occult in local power struggles in rural Zambia / Owen Sichone -- Politicians, party politics, and the control of harmful magic : witchfinding and moral entrepreneurship during the independence era in coastal Kenya / Diane Ciekawy -- In pursuit of the occult : the investigation of Satanism and witchcraft in South Africa / Véronique Faure -- Prayers, guns, and ritual murder : power and the occult in Ghanaian popular cinema / Birgit Meyer -- Embodying the occult : religious experiences and ritual practices in urban Zulu zionism / Rune Flikke.
- ISBN
- 3825887618 (pbk.)
- 9783825887612 (pbk.)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library