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Modernity and its malcontents : ritual and power in postcolonial Africa. ed. by Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff

Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, John L (1945-...) 1993

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Title:
Modernity and its malcontents : ritual and power in postcolonial Africa. ed. by Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff
Author: Comaroff, Jean;
Comaroff, John L (1945-...)
Subjects: Pouvoir (sciences sociales) -- Congrès;
Witchcraft -- Congresses -- Africa;
Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses;
Rites and ceremonies -- Congresses -- Africa;
Sorcellerie -- Congrès -- Afrique;
Rites et cérémonies -- Congrès -- Afrique;
Afrique -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Congrès;
Afrique -- Politique et gouvernement -- Congrès;
Africa -- Politics and government -- Congresses;
Africa -- Social life and customs -- Congresses
Description: Articles présentés à la conférence qui s'est tenue en 1990 à l'University de Chicago
Notes bibliogr. Index
Narratives of power, images of wealth : the ritual economy of Bori in the market / Adeline Masquelier Chewa visions and revisions of power : transformations of the Nyau dance in Central Malawi / Deborah Kaspin Government by seduction : history and the tropes of "mounting" in Oyo-Yoruba religion / J. Lorand Matory The moral economy of witchcraft : an essay in comparative history / Ralph A. Austen Atinga revisited : Yoruba witchcraft and the cocoa economy, 1950-1951 / Andrew Apter "Bloodhounds who have no friends?" : witchcraft and locality in the Nigerian popular press / Misty L. Bastian "Open the wombs!" the symbolic politics of modern Ngoni witchfinding / Mark Auslander Black stomachs, beautiful stones : soul-eating among Hausa in Niger / Pamela G. Schmoll
Publisher: Chicago London : University of Chicago Press, 1993
Creation Date: 1993
Format: 1 vol. (XXXVII-233 p.) ; 23 cm
Language: English

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