Evil in Africa : Encounters with the Everyday /

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William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investig...

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Otros Autores: Beek, W. E. A. van (Editor ), Olsen, William C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Good and evil > Social aspects.
Good and evil.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Good and evil > Social aspects > Africa.
Africa.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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