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Title Modernity and its malcontents : ritual and power in postcolonial Africa / edited by Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993

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Description xxxvii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses.
Power (Social sciences) -- Africa -- Congresses.
Rites and ceremonies -- Africa -- Congresses.
Witchcraft -- Africa -- Congresses.
SUBJECT Africa -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001570 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Africa -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100923 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Comaroff, Jean.
Comaroff, John L., 1945-
LC no. 93000017
ISBN 0226114392 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226114406 (paper : alk. paper)