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E-raamat: Perspectives on African Witchcraft [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

  • Formaat: 226 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2019
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315439921
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  • Formaat: 226 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2019
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315439921

This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witchcraft in sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters explore a variety of cultural contexts, with contributions focusing on Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia and Eritrean diaspora. The book considers the concept of witchcraft itself, the interrelations with religion and medicine, and the theoretical frameworks employed to explain the nature of modern African witchcraft representations.



This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witchcraft in sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters explore a variety of cultural contexts, with contributions focusing on Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia and Eritrean diaspora. The book considers the concept of witchcraft itself, th

Notes on contributors viii
Foreword xi
Introduction 1(25)
Mariano Pavanello
Painful ethnographic memories
1(2)
Witchcraft: A kaleidoscope and an anthropological metanarrative
3(6)
Perspectives
9(9)
References
18(8)
1 Agencies, jurisdictions and paradigms in the shaping of witchcraft
26(55)
Mariano Pavanello
A paradigm of power in West Africa
26(3)
The glorification of power in sixteenth-century Europe
29(3)
Witchcraft as a paradigm of evil power
32(4)
The canonical doctrine
36(4)
Witchcraft: Dream or reality?
40(6)
Popular beliefs: Superstitions or countertheories?
46(6)
A bridge across the Atlantic
52(15)
References
67(14)
2 Witchcraft, medicine and British colonial rule: Anthropological analysis of colonial documents in the Gold Coast
81(23)
Elisa Vasconi
The colonial encounter
82(1)
Anti-witchcraft laws: The Gold Coast and the new courts
83(5)
The health care system: Public health and segregationist politics
88(3)
The colonial governance: Between witchcraft and public health
91(8)
References
99(5)
3 Witchcraft and dream: A discussion of the Akan case
104(29)
Mariano Pavanello
My hypothesis
105(1)
Akan witchcraft
106(5)
My ethnographic evidence
111(4)
`The reality of dream
115(4)
Conclusion
119(5)
References
124(9)
4 Witchcraft and religion in the process of formation of the public space in Ghana
133(12)
Angelantonio Grossi
Accra's disenchantment
133(1)
Finding magical modernity: Nana Kwaku Bonsam
134(1)
Beyond civil society
135(2)
Juju, citizenship and political action
137(4)
References
141(4)
5 Where Christianity is ancient: Pentecostalism, evil in the world and the break with the past in Ethiopia
145(20)
Pino Schirripa
Pentecostalism and charismatism in Africa
145(3)
Rupture and continuity in African Pentecostalism
148(4)
Pentecostals in Ethiopia
152(3)
Two stories regarding the occult
155(1)
Demonizing as a way to make a break with the past
156(5)
References
161(4)
6 "Be Yesus Sh'm": Breaking with the national past in Eritrean and Ethiopian Pentecostal churches in Rome
165(20)
Osvaldo Costantini
Guerrilla and diaspora: Sixty years of Eritrean history
166(2)
Ethiopian and Eritrean Pentecostalism and the Habesha church in Rome
168(4)
Breaking with the past, healing history
172(5)
Conclusion
177(3)
References
180(5)
7 "I went out into the street ... and now I am fighting for my life.": Street children, witchcraft accusations, and the collapse of the household in Bangui (Central African Republic)
185(15)
Andrea Ceriana Mayneri
A history of oppression and dispossession
186(1)
The streets of Bangui
187(2)
Witchcraft violence: Children, adults and religious leaders in the streets of Bangui
189(2)
Etiological crisis and the collapse of the household
191(2)
Conclusion: The dialectic of enclosure and freedom
193(3)
References
196(4)
8 Fields of experience: In between healing and harming. On conversation between Dogon healers and sorcerers
200(18)
Roberto Beneduce
Healing powers, sacrifice and sorcery on the Dogon plateau
200(3)
Archives of disorder, secret and rebellion
203(4)
To accuse, to heal, to envision
207(3)
Epistemological debris and `hierarchies of credibility'. Conclusions
210(5)
References
215(3)
Index 218
This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witchcraft in sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters explore a variety of cultural contexts, with contributions focusing on Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia and Eritrean diaspora. The book considers the concept of witchcraft itself, the interrelations with religion and medicine, and the theoretical frameworks employed to explain the nature of modern African witchcraft representations.