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Language: en
Pages: 150
Pages: 150
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-10 - Publisher: African Books Collective
This is a comparative ethnographic study of witchcraft and associated violence between the kingdoms of Kom and Venda in Cameroon and South Africa respectively.
Language: en
Pages: 268
Pages: 268
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-11-17 - Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
'Magical Interpretations, Material Realities brings together many of today's best scholars of contemporary Africa. The theme of "witchcraft" has long been assoc
Language: en
Pages: 332
Pages: 332
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press
To many Westerners, the disappearance of African traditions of witchcraft might seem inevitable wuth continued modernization. In The Modernity of Witchcraft, Pe
Language: en
Pages: 311
Pages: 311
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher:
In the Modernity of Witchcraft, Peter Geschiere uses his own experiences among the Maka and in other parts of eastern and southern Cameroon, as well as other an
Language: en
Pages: 265
Pages: 265
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in w