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| Foreword |
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| Introduction |
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Painful ethnographic memories |
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Witchcraft: A kaleidoscope and an anthropological metanarrative |
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3 | (6) |
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9 | (9) |
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18 | (8) |
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1 Agencies, jurisdictions and paradigms in the shaping of witchcraft |
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26 | (55) |
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A paradigm of power in West Africa |
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26 | (3) |
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The glorification of power in sixteenth-century Europe |
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29 | (3) |
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Witchcraft as a paradigm of evil power |
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32 | (4) |
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36 | (4) |
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Witchcraft: Dream or reality? |
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40 | (6) |
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Popular beliefs: Superstitions or countertheories? |
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46 | (6) |
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A bridge across the Atlantic |
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52 | (15) |
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67 | (14) |
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2 Witchcraft, medicine and British colonial rule: Anthropological analysis of colonial documents in the Gold Coast |
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81 | (23) |
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82 | (1) |
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Anti-witchcraft laws: The Gold Coast and the new courts |
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83 | (5) |
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The health care system: Public health and segregationist politics |
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88 | (3) |
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The colonial governance: Between witchcraft and public health |
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91 | (8) |
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99 | (5) |
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3 Witchcraft and dream: A discussion of the Akan case |
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104 | (29) |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (5) |
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111 | (4) |
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115 | (4) |
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119 | (5) |
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124 | (9) |
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4 Witchcraft and religion in the process of formation of the public space in Ghana |
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133 | (12) |
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133 | (1) |
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Finding magical modernity: Nana Kwaku Bonsam |
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134 | (1) |
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135 | (2) |
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Juju, citizenship and political action |
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137 | (4) |
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141 | (4) |
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5 Where Christianity is ancient: Pentecostalism, evil in the world and the break with the past in Ethiopia |
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145 | (20) |
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Pentecostalism and charismatism in Africa |
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145 | (3) |
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Rupture and continuity in African Pentecostalism |
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148 | (4) |
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152 | (3) |
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Two stories regarding the occult |
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155 | (1) |
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Demonizing as a way to make a break with the past |
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156 | (5) |
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161 | (4) |
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6 "Be Yesus Sh'm": Breaking with the national past in Eritrean and Ethiopian Pentecostal churches in Rome |
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165 | (20) |
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Guerrilla and diaspora: Sixty years of Eritrean history |
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166 | (2) |
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Ethiopian and Eritrean Pentecostalism and the Habesha church in Rome |
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168 | (4) |
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Breaking with the past, healing history |
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172 | (5) |
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177 | (3) |
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180 | (5) |
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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) |
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185 | (15) |
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A history of oppression and dispossession |
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186 | (1) |
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187 | (2) |
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Witchcraft violence: Children, adults and religious leaders in the streets of Bangui |
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189 | (2) |
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Etiological crisis and the collapse of the household |
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191 | (2) |
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Conclusion: The dialectic of enclosure and freedom |
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193 | (3) |
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196 | (4) |
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8 Fields of experience: In between healing and harming. On conversation between Dogon healers and sorcerers |
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200 | (18) |
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Healing powers, sacrifice and sorcery on the Dogon plateau |
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200 | (3) |
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Archives of disorder, secret and rebellion |
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203 | (4) |
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To accuse, to heal, to envision |
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207 | (3) |
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Epistemological debris and `hierarchies of credibility'. Conclusions |
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210 | (5) |
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215 | (3) |
| Index |
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