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Debating Witchcraft in Africa: The Magritte Effect edited by Didier Peclard & Jean-Pierre Warnier.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft--Africa.
- Witchcraft.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (100 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
- Summary:
- Given the circularity of the witchcraft complex in Africa, given its performative potential, isn't the flood of anthropological publications on the topic counter-productive insofar as it feeds what it pretends to analyse, and even stigmatize? Wouldn't the social scientists be well advised not to emulate the media and the Evangelical preachers and to avoid bestowing on Africa the dubious privilege of being no more than a shadow theatre devoid of substance on the stage of which everything - power, work, production, economy, the family - would actually be played in the occult? In this publication, eight scholars - namely: Jean-Pierre Warnier, Didier Peclard, Julien Bonhomme, Patrice Yengo, Jane Guyer, Joseph Tonda, Francis Nyamnjoh and Peter Geschiere - engage in a lively and contradictory debate on witchcraft/sorcery in Africa in a controversial historical context.
- Contents:
- Preface : witchcraft in Africa. debating the "Magritte effect" / Didier Peclard
- This is not a witch. About the Magritte affect in matters of witchcraft / Jean-Pierre Warnier
- Witchcraft and discourse genres : from intimate stories to public rumours / Julien Bonhomme
- For a hermeneutics of witchcraft / Patrice Yengo
- Magritte's multiplicities and Warnier's inspirations / Jane I Guyer
- From one crisis to another : Afrodystopia / Joseph Tonda
- The incompleteness of the African subject / Francis B. Nyamnjoh
- Witchcraft : a knowledge that defies knowing? / Peter Geschiere
- The unfathomable lightness of the witch / Jean-Pierre Warnier.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789956550500
- 9956550507
- OCLC:
- 1061312387
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