The Gospel Sounds Like the Witch's Spell : Dealing with Misfortune among the Jopadhola of Eastern Uganda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Umeya, Kiyoshi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jopadhola (African people)--Religion.

Jopadhola (African people).

Witchcraft--Uganda.

Witchcraft.

Genre:

Ethnography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (766 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2022.

Summary:

The Gospel Sounds Like the Witch's Spell is a highly detailed ethnography about how the Jopadhola in eastern Uganda talk about, interpret and cope with death, illness and other misfortunes.

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)

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

10. Chien, Mwonjo and Tipo

III. The 'Bone-gnawing' Ritual: Kayo Choko

IV. Discussion and Summary

Chapter 6 - The Notion of 'Curse' or Lam

1. What are 'Curses'?

2. A Spiritual Dimension, or the Power of a Living Person?

3. The State of a 'Curse'

4. Ways to Lift a 'Curse'

Chapter 7 - Luswa

1. Regular 'Luswa'

2. From personal experience

3. Luswa for Using a Bed

4. What is yath luswa?

5. Eliminating 'Causes of Misfortune'

6. Medicines and Christianity

7. The Spell of Belief

III. Summary

Chapter 8 - Discussion and Analysis of 12 Cases

II. The Cases

1. A Jwogi Possession

2. Wrath of the Spirits of the Dead

3. Bura Possession

4. A Case of Poisoning

5. Disrespecting an Uncle and Being 'Cursed'.

6. A 'curse' that Causes Alcohol Addiction

7. The Framing of Joseph

8. A 'Curse' that Lasted Three Years

9. A 'Curse' that Prevents Pregnancy

10. A 'Curse' by One's Uncle and Foster Parent

11. If One Falls Victim to a 'Curse'

12. Cleansing a Daughter Who Is Having Miscarriages

Chapter 9 - Conversations with Pentecostal Leaders

II. The Conversations with Pentecostal Leaders

1. Interview with 'Malaika' Janifer

2. Interview with Bishop Odongo John Martin Adhola

3. Interview with Maria Adikini of the Legio Maria Church

4. The Notion of Dreams ( Lek)

PART II

Chapter 10 - Narrating Funerals

1. The Burial (Yikiroki)

2. The Liedo Ritual

3. Designating the Musika and the Mukuza

4. Mourning Taboos and the End of Mourning

5. The Jowo Buru Ritual

Chapter 11 - The Death of a Certain Post-Colonial Elite: Record of a Funeral in Padhola, Eastern Uganda

1. Ceremonial Programme and Seating

2. Memorial Address: Clan Relations

3. Arrival of Adhola

4. Memorial Address: A Relative by Marriage

5. The Doctor's Diagnosis and Memorial Address

6. Memorial Addresses: TASO and the Technical Training School

7. Memorial Address: Local Government Connections

8. Memorial Address: A Last-minute Speaker

9. Reading the biography

10. Memorial Addresses: The Adhola Union

11. The Church Service

Chapter 12 - The Reality of the Funeral

I. The Resounding Buli

II. Drinking in Padhola and a Familiar 'Death'

III. The 'Burial Rites' (ikiroki ) of Opowo

IV. Oduwe, the Man Who Could Not Let Go of Alcohol because of a 'Curse'

V. Basil's Death and Ading's Illness

VI. The Sorcery of Modernity

PART III.

Chapter 13 - The Particulars of a Certain Estate Liquidation

1. Where the Issue Lies

2. Background Context

3. Intersecting Interpretations

II. Encountering ACK

III. The Minister of State, a Ghost and a Prophet

IV. The Revisit

V. The Grave of Zefania Ochieng

VI. Godfrey Oboth-Ofumbi and the Two Mzee (Elders)

VII. Reverend Canon Mika Omala

VIII. The Auxiliary Line Called Adioma

IX. The Ofumbi Residence and the Estate

X. ACK's Grave

Chapter 14 - Witches Who Preach the Gospel

I. From outside the Barbed Wire

II. The Testimony of Mika Omala

III. Okumu's Tipo and Semu K. Ofumbi's Chien

1. What Are the Problems?

2. Semu K. Ofumbi's Burial

IV. The Loli Clan of Korobudi

1. Rebuilding a Grave and Building a Chapel

2. The Land Issue and the Kwor Relationship with the Loli Clan

V. Another Tipo

1. Singing Current Affairs

2. The Tipo of James Ochola

3. Ochola's Body Has Not Been Found

VI. ACK's Death

1. ACK's Burial and the Reactions to It

2. Rumours that Persist 'Outside the Barbed Wire' Today

VII. Conclusion

II. A Preliminary Examination of 'Aetiologies of Misfortune'

III. The Jajwok and the Jamigimba

IV. Tipo, 'Curses', and 'Luswa

V. Speaking of Cases by Concept

VI. Pentecostal Christianity

VII. Funerary Texts and Practices

VIII. The Case of ACK

Appendices

Appendix I: Otinga's Ritual

Appendix II: The General Nature of Jwogi

Appendix III: Modern Witch Doctors

Appendix IV. Paying the Bride Wealth

Appendix V. When Twins are Born

Appendix VI. Odi Nyir and Simba

Appendix VII. Adhola-language Versions of the Texts in Chapters 2 and 10

Appendix VIII. Clans Registered with the Adhola Union, Tieng Adhola

Appendix IX. A Conviviality with My Two Research Assistants.

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789956552795

9956552798

OCLC:

1314612745