Witchcraft, violence, and democracy in South Africa /
By: Ashforth, Adam.
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TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005Description: xx, 396 p. : ill., 1 map.ISBN: 0226029743 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0226029735 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): WitchcraftDDC classification: 133.430968221
Contents:
Spiritual insecurity and political power -- Dimensions of insecurity in contemporary Soweto -- On living in a world with witches -- Freedom, democracy, and witchcraft : Soweto in the 1990s -- On believing, and not believing, in witchcraft -- Poison, medicine, and the power of secret knowledge -- Death, pollution, and the dangers of dirt -- A brief history of the spirit world -- Invisible beings in everyday life -- Vulnerabilities of the soul -- Witchcraft, violence, and justice -- Democratic statecraft in a world of witches
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Spiritual insecurity and political power -- Dimensions of insecurity in contemporary Soweto -- On living in a world with witches -- Freedom, democracy, and witchcraft : Soweto in the 1990s -- On believing, and not believing, in witchcraft -- Poison, medicine, and the power of secret knowledge -- Death, pollution, and the dangers of dirt -- A brief history of the spirit world -- Invisible beings in everyday life -- Vulnerabilities of the soul -- Witchcraft, violence, and justice -- Democratic statecraft in a world of witches
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