Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900-1955 / Katherine Luongo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luongo, Katherine, 1975-

Series:

Cambridge books online.

African Studies ; no. 116

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft--Kenya--History--20th century.

Witchcraft.

Witchcraft--Political aspects--Kenya--History--20th century.

Kamba (African people)--History--20th century.

Kamba (African people).

British--Kenya--History--20th century.

British.

Colonial administrators--Kenya--History--20th century.

Colonial administrators.

Trials (Witchcraft)--Kenya--History--20th century.

Trials (Witchcraft).

Witchcraft--Law and legislation--Kenya--History--20th century.

Witchcraft--Law and legislation.

History.

Kenya.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (116 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

PDF

Summary:

This book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft and its contentious relationship with the state in colonial Kenya.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Clans and Councils, Caravans and Conquest, Cosmology and Colonialism: Ukambani in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 29

3 Understanding Uoi, Uwe, and Kithitu in Ukambani 45

4 The "Cosmology" of the Colonial State 71

5 The Wakamba Witch Trials: A Witch-Murder in 1930s Kenya 98

6 Witchcraft, Murder, and Death Sentences after Rex v. Kumwaka 129

7 The World of Oathing and Witchcraft in Mau Mau-era Machakos 158

8 Cleansing Ukambani Witches 183

9 Epilogue 207.

Notes:

Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2012).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780511997914

9781107012189

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