TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olsen,William C.
AU  - Beek,W.E.A.van
TI  - Evil in Africa: encounters with the everyday 
SN  - 9780253017437 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - BJ1406 .E96 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Indiana
PB  - Indiana University press
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Africa
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice; Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen --; Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched; Sonia Silva --; Untying wrongs in northern Uganda; Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika --; The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state; Jok Madut Jok --; Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide; Jennie E. Burnet --; Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared; Wyatt MacGaffey --; Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka; Rene Devisch --; Aze and the incommensurable; Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal --; Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains; Walter E. A. van Beek --; Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini; Diane Ciekawy --; Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city; Ulrika Trovalla --; Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal; Roy Dilley --; Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar; Kjersti Larsen --; Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor; Susan J. Rasmussen --; The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions; Dorothy L. Hodgson --; Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil; Nancy Scheper-Hughes --; Theft and evil in Asante; William C. Olsen --; Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania; Maia Green --; Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo; Linda van de Kamp --; The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil; Adam Ashforth
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