The gospel sounds like the witch's spell : dealing with misfortune among the Jopadhola of Eastern Uganda / Kiyoshi Umeya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Umeya, Kiyoshi, 1969- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jopadhola (African people)--Religion.

Jopadhola (African people).

Blessing and cursing--Uganda.

Blessing and cursing.

Witchcraft--Uganda.

Witchcraft.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, [2022]

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

About the Author

Dedication

Acknowledgements for the English Version

Acknowledgements for the Original Japanese Version

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Same Facts, Different Interpretations

The Politicians of the Amin's Regime

The Adhola Interpretation

Multiple Side Stories

Structure of this Volume

Survey Duration

Introduction

I. Aims

1. 'Aetiologies of Misfortune'

2. Three Contexts

3. The 'Non-Causality' of 'Causes of Misfortune'

4. 'Causes of Misfortune' as Abduction

5. Multiple 'Causes', Multiple 'Narratives'

6. Empiricism and Rationalism

7. The Spider's Web

8. The Direction of this Volume

II. The Subjects

1. The Padhola and the Adhola

2. The People Called Adhola

3. History

4. The Adhola Union

5. The Patrilieal Clan, Nono

6. The Acceptance of Christianity and Politics

7. Overview of the Were Faith

8. Previous Research on the Adhola

III. Materials and Methods

1. Methodology

2. Texts

PART I

Chapter 1

Tuwo: Illness Categories

I. Introduction

II. Materials

1. Lifuoli and Tuwo

2. Types of Tuwo

III. Material Analysis and Discussion

1. 'Hygiene' Embodied

2. Aetiologies of Disease

3. Botho Tuwo Nyapadhola and Yath Nyapadhola

Conclusion

Chapter 2

'Aetiologies of Misfortune'

II. The Texts

1. Jwogi

2. Ghosts (Tipo) of the Murdered

3. Ayira (Poison)

4. 'Curses' ( Lam)

III. Material Analysis and Discussion

Chapter 3

The Notion of Jajwok

1. Types of Jajwok

2. Who is a Night Dancer?

3. The Night Dancer Lacks Self-Awareness

4. Prescribed Ways to Torture and Execute

5. Eyewitness Accounts of Night Dancers

6. Capturing a Night Dancer, Part 1

7.Capturing a Night Dancer, Part 2

8. Jajwok Identity Unknown

III. Discussion and Summary

Chapter 4

The Jamigimba Concept

1. The jamigimba Do Exist

2. The Jamigimba's Powers

3. Inherited or Bought

4. The Jamigimba's Ritual

5. Wang Koth ('Eyes of Rain')

6. Hunting Jamigimba

7. Jamigimba Eyewitness Accounts

III. Conclusion

1 The Ontology of the Jamigimba and Wang Koth

2 The Existence of the Powers of the Jamigimba and the Efficacy of Their Medicines

3 Inheritance or Purchase

4 The Connection with the Local Community

5 The Jamigimba Rituals

6 The Wang Koth

Chapter 5

The Tipo Notion

II. The Tipo

1. The Term 'Tipo'

2. What are the Tipo?

3. 'Bad luck' is also the Tipo's Fault

4. Sending a Tipo

5. Despite No Involvement

6. Tipo as Symptoms: Dialogue

7. Tipo as Symptoms: Dialogue 2

8. The Spirits of Those Killed in Battle, Accidents and Suicides

9. A Person's Death, Funeral and Tipo

Notes:

10. Chien, Mwonjo and Tipo.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 01, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Umeya, Kiyoshi The Gospel Sounds Like the Witch's Spell

ISBN:

9789956552795

9956552798

Publisher Number:

99991894967

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