Witchcraft, power, and politics :exploring the occult in the South African lowveld

  • 作者: Niehaus, Isak A.
  • 其他作者: Mohlala, Eliazaar. , Shokane, Kally.
  • 出版: Cape Town :London ;Sterling, Va. : David Philip ;Pluto Press 2001.
  • 稽核項: 1 online resource (xx, 246 pages) :illustrations, maps.
  • 叢書名: Anthropology, culture, and society
  • 標題: Witchcraft. , Sorcellerie Afrique du Sud. , BODY, MIND & SPIRIT , Witchcraft , Witchcraft & Wicca. , Electronic books. , South Africa. , Magick Studies. , Hekserij. , Electronic book. , BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Magick Studies. , Sorcellerie , BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Witchcraft & Wicca. , Witchcraft South Africa.
  • ISBN: 0585425582 , 9780585425580
  • ISBN: 0745315631 , 9780745315638 , 0745315585 , 9780745315584 , 0864863799 , 9780864863799
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  • 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-240) and index. Introduction: exploring witchcraft, power and politics -- Society, cosmology and the making of witchcraft: continuity and change in the history of Green Valley, 1864-1995 -- Witches of the Lowveld and their familiars: conceptions of duality, power and desire -- Witchcraft and whites: further notes on the symbolic constitution of occult power -- Witches, cognates, affines and neighbours: the changing distribution of witchcraft accusations -- 'A witch has no horn': social tensions in the subjective reality of witchcraft -- Witch-hunting and political legitimacy: chiefs, comrades and the elimination of evil, 1930-1989 -- The ANC's dilemma: the symbolic politics of four witch-hunts in the 1990s -- Conclusion: witchcraft and the postcolonial state -- Appendix A. Fieldwork revisited -- Appendix B. Public perception map of South Africa -- Appendix C. The witchcraft suppression act no. 3 of 1957 -- Appendix D. Details of the alleged witches violently attacked, green valley, 1971-1985 -- Appendix E. Details pertaining to the victims of witch-hunts organised by the comrades, Green Valley, 1986-1989 -- Appendix F. Details of those accused of witchcraft, Green Valley, the Christmas witch-hunts, 1990 -- Appendix G. Details of those accused of witchcraft, new lines, Arthur's seat, October 1993 -- Appendix H. Details of those accused of witchcraft, Rooiboklaagte, November 1994 -- Appendix I. The Witchcraft Control Act as proposed by the commission of inquiry into witchcraft violence and ritual murders in the northern province of the Republic of South Africa.
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