Magical Interpretations, Material Realities : Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415258677
ISBN-13
9780415258678
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 13th, 2001
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
458 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.80 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Anthropology
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This volume sets out recent thinking on withccraft in Africa, paying particular attention to variations in meanings and practices.
''Magical Interpretations, Material Realities brings together many of today''s best scholars of contemporary Africa. The theme of "witchcraft" has long been associated with exoticizing portraits of a "traditional" Africa, but this volume takes the question of occult as a point of entry into the moral politics of some very modern African realities.'' - James Ferguson, University of California, USA
''These essays bear eloquent testimony to the ongoing presence and power of the occult imaginary, and of the intimate connection between global capitalism and local cosmology, in postcolonial Africa. A major contribution to scholarship that aims to rework the divide between modernity and tradition.'' - Charles Piot, Duke University, USA
This volume sets out recent thinking on witchcraft in Africa, paying particular attention to variations in meanings and practices. It examines the way different people in different contexts are making sense of what ''witchcraft'' is and what it might mean.
Using recent ethnographic materials from across the continent, the volume explores how witchcraft articulates with particular modern settings for example: the State in Cameroon; Pentecostalism in Malawi; the university system in Nigeria and the IMF in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. The editors provide a timely overview and reconsideration of long-standing anthropological debates about ''African witchcraft'', while simultaneously raising broader concerns about the theories of the western social sciences.
''These essays bear eloquent testimony to the ongoing presence and power of the occult imaginary, and of the intimate connection between global capitalism and local cosmology, in postcolonial Africa. A major contribution to scholarship that aims to rework the divide between modernity and tradition.'' - Charles Piot, Duke University, USA
This volume sets out recent thinking on witchcraft in Africa, paying particular attention to variations in meanings and practices. It examines the way different people in different contexts are making sense of what ''witchcraft'' is and what it might mean.
Using recent ethnographic materials from across the continent, the volume explores how witchcraft articulates with particular modern settings for example: the State in Cameroon; Pentecostalism in Malawi; the university system in Nigeria and the IMF in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. The editors provide a timely overview and reconsideration of long-standing anthropological debates about ''African witchcraft'', while simultaneously raising broader concerns about the theories of the western social sciences.
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