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Spellbound : inside West Africa's witch camps / Karen Palmer.
LIBRA BF1584.A358 P35 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palmer, Karen, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft--Africa, West.
- Witchcraft.
- West Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 247 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Free Press hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- Documents the author's visit to remote West African camps where men and women accused of practicing witchcraft are exiled to lives of poverty, describing the pervasiveness of superstitious belief systems through which even victims blame themselves.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439120507
- 1439120501
- OCLC:
- 555639667
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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