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Language: en
Pages: 386
Pages: 386
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-08 - Publisher: Routledge
This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witchcraft in sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters explore a variety of
Language: en
Pages: 254
Pages: 254
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-21 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
This work of African philosophy and theology uses the thought of Emmanuel Levinas to provide an analysis of tfu (witchcraft) among the Wimbum people of Cameroon
Language: en
Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-09 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
In Dante’s Inferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythol
Language: en
Pages: 132
Pages: 132
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Langaa Rpcig
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: 315
Pages: 315
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-05 - Publisher: Routledge
Containing ten essays by anthropologists on the beliefs and practices associated with witches and sorcerers in Eastern Africa, the chapters in this book are all