Witchcraft and colonial rule in Kenya, 1900-1955 /

Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses the emergence of imperial networks of kno...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Luongo, Katherine, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:African studies series ; 116.
Subjects:
To 1999
Witchcraft > Kenya > History > 20th century.
Witchcraft > Political aspects > Kenya > History > 20th century.
Kamba (African people) > History > 20th century.
British > Kenya > History > 20th century.
Colonial administrators > Kenya > History > 20th century.
Trials (Witchcraft) > Kenya > History > 20th century.
Witchcraft > Law and legislation > Kenya > History > 20th century.
Sorcellerie > Kenya > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sorcellerie > Aspect politique > Kenya > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Kamba (Peuple d'Afrique) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Britanniques > Kenya > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Administrateurs coloniaux > Kenya > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Procès (Sorcellerie) > Kenya > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Magick Studies.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Witchcraft & Wicca.
British
Colonial administrators
Colonial influence
Kamba (African people)
Manners and customs
Politics and government
Trials (Witchcraft)
Witchcraft
Witchcraft > Law and legislation
Kenya > Colonial influence.
Kenya > Politics and government > To 1963.
Kenya > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Kenya > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1963.
Kenya > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
Kenya
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Clans and councils, caravans and conquest, cosmology and colonialism : Ukambani in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  • Understanding Uoi, Uwe, and Kithitu in Ukambani
  • The "cosmology" of the colonial state
  • The Wakamba witch trials : a witch-murder in 1930s Kenya
  • Witchcraft, murder, and death sentences after Rex v. Kumwaka
  • The world of oathing and witchcraft in Mau Mau-era Machakos
  • Cleansing Ukambani witches
  • Epilogue.

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