Narratives of power, images of wealth : the ritual economy of Bori in the market / Adeline Masquelier -- Chewa visions and revisions of power : transformations of the Nyau dance in Central Malawi / Deborah Kaspin -- Government by seduction : history and the tropes of "mounting" in Oyo-Yoruba religion / J. Lorand Matory -- The moral economy of witchcraft : an essay in comparative history / Ralph A. Austen -- Atinga revisited : Yoruba witchcraft and the cocoa economy, 1950-1951 / Andrew Apter -- "Bloodhounds who have no friends?" : witchcraft and locality in the Nigerian popular press / Misty L. Bastian -- "Open the wombs!" the symbolic politics of modern Ngoni witchfinding / Mark Auslander -- Black stomachs, beautiful stones : soul-eating among Hausa in Niger / Pamela G. Schmoll
Analysis
Social change
Notes
Papers presented at a conference held in the winter of 1990 at the University of Chicago