TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moore,Henrietta L.
AU  - Sanders,Todd
TI  - Magical interpretations, material realities: modernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa 
SN  - 0415258669
AV  - BF1584.A357 M34 2001
U1  - 133.4/3/096 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Witchcraft
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: List of figures ix -- List of contributors xi 1 Magical interpretations and material realities: an introduction 1 -- HENRIETTA L. MOORE AND TODD SANDERS --2 Delusions of development and the enrichment of witchcraft discourses in Cameroon 28 -- FRANCIS B. NYAMNJOH --3 Cannibal transformations: colonialism and commodification in the Sierra Leone hinterland 50 -- ROSALIND SHAW --4 Vulture men, campus cultists and teenaged witches: modern magics in Nigerian popular media 71 -- MISTY L. BASTIAN --5 Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy: Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi 97 -- RIJK VAN DIJK --6 Black market, free market: anti-witchcraft shrines and fetishes among the Akan 118 -- JANE PARISH --7 Betrayal or affirmation? Transformations in witchcraft technologies of power, danger and agency among the Tuareg of Niger 136 -- SUSAN RASMUSSEN --8 Save our skins: structural adjustment, morality and the occult in Tanzania 160 -- TODD SANDERS --9 Witchcraft in the new South Africa: from colonial superstition to postcolonial reality? 184 -- ISAK NIEHAUS --10 On living in a world with witches: everyday epistemology and spiritual insecurity in a modern African city (Soweto) 206 -- ADAM ASHFORTH --11 Witchcraft, development and paranoia in Cameroon: interactions between popular, academic and state discourse 226 -- CYPRIAN F. FISIY AND PETER GESCHIERE --
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