| Description |
xvii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Personae -- I. 1976-77 -- 1. Mehanna -- 2. A Lesson in Survey Research -- 3. Discussion Groups -- 4. Guided Interpretations -- 5. Two Birds in the Rafters Are Better Than One in the Bush -- 6. Sorko Djibo -- 7. An Apprentice's First Mission -- 8. Immersed in Texts -- 9. Wanzerbe -- 10. Initiation -- 11. Witches -- 12. A Tonic for Work -- 13. Between Sound and the Shadow -- 14. Tillaberi -- 15. The Young Sohanci -- 16. Asking Questions -- 17. Prison Years -- 18. The Coming of Serci -- 19. Words of Protection -- 20. On the Road -- 21. Vengeance for the Powerful -- Ii. 1979-80 -- 22. Frightening Discoveries -- 23. Evidence of Power -- 24. Repelled by the Cold in Ayoru -- 25. An Interpretation -- 26. The Path to Wanzerbe -- 27. A Test of Hardness -- Iii. 1981 -- 28. Rites of Clairvoyance -- 29. Sohanci Business -- 30. Journey Under the River -- 31. Amadu Zima -- 32. An Invitation from Kassey -- Iv. 1982-83 -- 33. A Father and His Son -- 34. Fatouma -- 35. Kassey -- V. 1984 -- 36. Power in the Compound -- 37. A Lecture on Medicine -- 38. Mehanna Revisited -- 39. The Way of the Cowry -- 40. Showdown with Djibo -- 41. Last Stand in Wanzerbe -- Epilogue: In Sorcery's Shadow -- Glossary |
| Analysis |
Niger Songhai Cultural processes - Biographies - Collections |
| Subject |
Stoller, Paul.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Niger.
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Songhai (African people)
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Witchcraft -- Niger.
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| Author |
Olkes, Cheryl.
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| LC no. |
87010746 |
| ISBN |
0226775429 |
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0226775437 (paperback) |
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