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Human Sacrifice and the Supernatural in African History /

Since time immemorial, human beings the world over have sought answers to the vexing questions of their origins, sickness, death and after death; the meaning of natural phenomena such as earthquakes, eclipses of the sun and moon, birth of twins etc. and how to protect themselves from such mysterious...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mbogoni, Lawrence Ezekiel Yona (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Human sacrifice and the supernatural in African history : an overview
  • Human sacrifice and the supernatural in the Asante Empire and modern-day Ghana
  • Human sacrifice and the supernatural in Sierra Leone
  • "Medicine murder" in Lesotho
  • "Medicine murder" in Swaziland
  • Human sacrifice and the killing of albinos in Tanzania
  • Human sacrifice and the supernatural in Uganda
  • Human sacrifice and the supernatural in Zanzibar
  • Mail order magic : commercial exploitation of folk belief
  • Conclusion
  • Selected bibliography
  • Subject index by alphabetical order.