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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface -- Witchcraft in Africa Debating the "Magritte Effect"; PART I; 1. "This Is Not a Witch. About the Magritte Effect in Matters of Witchcraft"; About the Magritte effect in the case of witchcraft; Three cases of witchcraft attacks; The ideal type of the witchcraft crisis; For a sociology of the witchcraft crisis; What is at stake?; PART II; 2. Witchcraft and Discourse Genres: From Intimate Stories to Public Rumours; 3. For a Hermeneutics of Witchcraft; 4. Magritte's Multiplicities and Warnier's Inspirations; Introduction |
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Words and Meanings: SourcesI: Biblical translations; II: Ethnographic Sources; Conclusion; 5. From One Crisis to Another: Afrodystopia; 6. The Incompleteness of the African Subject; 7. Witchcraft: A Knowledge that Defies Knowing?; PART III; 8. The Unfathomable Lightness of the Witch; Back cover |
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Given the circularity of the witchcraft complex in Africa, given its performative potential, isn't the flood of anthropological publications on the topic counter-productive insofar as it feeds what it pretends to analyse, and even stigmatize? Wouldn't the social scientists be well advised not to emulate the media and the Evangelical preachers and to avoid bestowing on Africa the dubious privilege of being no more than a shadow theatre devoid of substance on the stage of which everything--power, work, production, economy, the family--would actually be played in the occult? In this publication, eight scholars--namely: Jean-Pierre Warnier, Didier Péclard, Julien Bonhomme, Patrice Yengo, Jane Guyer, Joseph Tonda, Francis Nyamnjoh and Peter Geschiere--engage in a lively and contradictory debate on witchcraft/sorcery in Africa in a controversial historical context |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2018) |
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Witchcraft -- Africa
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Africa.
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witchcraft.
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African history.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Witchcraft
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Africa
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Péclard, Didier, editor
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Warnier, Jean-Pierre, editor
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| ISBN |
9956550507 |
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9789956550500 |
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