Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olsen, William C., editor.

Beek, W. E. A. van, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Good and evil--Social aspects--Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These studies of evil entanglements take local and national histories and identities into account, including state politics and civil war, religious practices, Islam, gender, and modernity.

Contents:

Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen

Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva

Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika

The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok

Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet

Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey

Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch

Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal

Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E. A. van Beek

Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy

Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla

Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley

Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen

Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen

The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson

Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen

Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green

Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp

The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-01750-5

OCLC:

923809751