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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Warnier, Jean-Pierre, Peclard, Didier
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.