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Debating witchcraft in Africa : the "Magritte Effect" /
Given the circularity of the witchcraft complex in Africa, given its performative potential, isn't the flood of anthropological publications on the topic counter-productive insofar as it feeds what it pretends to analyse, and even stigmatize? Wouldn't the social scientists be well advised...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon :
Langaa RPCIG,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface
- Witchcraft in Africa Debating the "Magritte Effect"; PART I; 1. "This Is Not a Witch. About the Magritte Effect in Matters of Witchcraft"; About the Magritte effect in the case of witchcraft; Three cases of witchcraft attacks; The ideal type of the witchcraft crisis; For a sociology of the witchcraft crisis; What is at stake?; PART II; 2. Witchcraft and Discourse Genres: From Intimate Stories to Public Rumours; 3. For a Hermeneutics of Witchcraft; 4. Magritte's Multiplicities and Warnier's Inspirations; Introduction
- Words and Meanings: SourcesI: Biblical translations; II: Ethnographic Sources; Conclusion; 5. From One Crisis to Another: Afrodystopia; 6. The Incompleteness of the African Subject; 7. Witchcraft: A Knowledge that Defies Knowing?; PART III; 8. The Unfathomable Lightness of the Witch; Back cover