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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface : witchcraft in Africa. debating the "Magritte effect" / Didier Peclard
- This is not a witch. About the Magritte affect in matters of witchcraft / Jean-Pierre Warnier
- Witchcraft and discourse genres : from intimate stories to public rumours / Julien Bonhomme
- For a hermeneutics of witchcraft / Patrice Yengo
- Magritte's multiplicities and Warnier's inspirations / Jane I Guyer
- From one crisis to another : Afrodystopia / Joseph Tonda
- The incompleteness of the African subject / Francis B. Nyamnjoh
- Witchcraft : a knowledge that defies knowing? / Peter Geschiere
- The unfathomable lightness of the witch / Jean-Pierre Warnier.