Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcra ft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa - Moore, Henrietta L.; Sanders, Todd, 1965- (London ; New York : Routledge, 2001)
Machine generated contents note: List of figures ix -- List of contr ibutors xi 1 Magical interpretations and material realities: an introdu ction 1 -- HENRIETTA L. MOORE AND TODD SANDERS --2 Delusions of develop ment and the enrichment of witchcraft discourses in Cameroon 28 -- FRAN CIS B. NYAMNJOH --3 Cannibal transformations: colonialism and commodifi cation in the Sierra Leone hinterland 50 -- ROSALIND SHAW --4 Vulture m en, campus cultists and teenaged witches: modern magics in Nigerian pop ular media 71 -- MISTY L. BASTIAN --5 Witchcraft and scepticism by prox y: Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi 97 -- RIJK VAN DIJK --6 Black market, free market: anti-witchcraft shrines and fetishes among t he Akan 118 -- JANE PARISH --7 Betrayal or affirmation? Transformations in witchcraft technologies of power, danger and agency among the Tuare g of Niger 136 -- SUSAN RASMUSSEN --8 Save our skins: structural adjust ment, morality and the occult in Tanzania 160 -- TODD SANDERS --9 Witch craft in the new South Africa: from colonial superstition to postcoloni al reality? 184 -- ISAK NIEHAUS --10 On living in a world with witches: everyday epistemology and spiritual insecurity in a modern African cit y (Soweto) 206 -- ADAM ASHFORTH --11 Witchcraft, development and parano ia in Cameroon: interactions between popular, academic and state discou rse 226 -- CYPRIAN F. FISIY AND PETER GESCHIERE --.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Witchcraft -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.