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...Veerle Van Gijsegem Duke University Press 2006 Criminal Law of French Origin and Criminal Behavior of African Occult Origin: The Modernity of Witchcraft Trials in the West...

....” In Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology . New York : Basic Books , 1983 . Geschiere Peter . The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa . Translated by Geschiere Peter Roitman Janet . Charlottesville : University Press...

...: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2013 . De Boeck Filip Plissart Marie-Françoise . Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City . Ludion : Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren , 2004 . Deleuze Gilles . Nietzsche and Philosophy...

..., The Will to Knowledge . 6. Agamben, States of Exception . 7. Kelly and Thiranagama, “Introduction,” 3 . 8. Geschiere, The Modernity of Witchcraft . 9. Herzfeld, Cultural Intimacy . 10. Compare Humphrey, “Loyalty and Disloyalty.” 11. Nagel, “Masculinity...

... as training is in anthropology and criminology, much a cleavage as an integration. As Salman brings this dual perspective to bear on the study Rushdie writes, transnational lives are often of the handling of witchcraft cases in contempo- characterized by a “double...

... , 2007 . Brenner Louis . West African Sufi: The Religious Heritage and Spiritual Quest of Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1984 . Evans-Pritchard E. E. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande . Oxford : Clarendon , 1937...

...: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems , edited by Ong Aiwa Collier Stephen , 173 – 93 . Oxford : Blackwell , 2004 . Evans-Pritchard E. E. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Zande . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1976 . Hansen Thomas Blom...

... Cultural Corri- dor in the Western Indian Ocean (1799–1856) (Brill, 2004). She is editor of Studies in Witchcraft, Magic, War and Peace in Africa: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Mellen, 2006). She has published several...

... the emotional impact of the epidemic Comparative Chapter 4 explores popular explanations for through quotes from people living with AIDS: “My AIDS, with a focus on witchcraft and traditional life has no hope. Why doesn’t the Lord just take me? Studies...

... of witchcraft. The report for your own self defense. claimed that in fact the Mahanvada had escaped the Victory to peasants, victory to workers, epidemic because it was cleaner than the rest of the Long live the red flag!@ village, and went on to note that most...

... God what you want. In such an atmosphere of heaviness, I don't think there is a way God can deny us anything.” Furthermore, in such an atmosphere, he said, witchcraft was impossible. The “heavy” atmosphere of the church was constructed not only through sounds, but also through other senses. When I had...

... vehemently oppose on principle any family political movement that encourages women measure or development that deflects women from to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice fulfilling their Biblical/Koranic obligations as obe- witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become dient wives...

... the distorted 16. Here, I want to acknowledge strong arguments local spiritual interventions, such as witchcraft; yet Question of Power Read as a Mariner’s Guide to Para- made for the presence of actual ghosts or spirits in what Western culture would perceive as her halluci- noia,” Research in African...

... competing Islamic interpretations at work social occasions where all open questions pertain- but also older notions of non-­Muslim derivation.39 ing to the death, from the potential involvement Gayo ideas hold that different composite parts of of witchcraft in causing...

... Mozambicans. Using language that resonated with witchcraft accusations—a common register of political critique from below—the memo closed by underlining the seriousness of the “many American activities functioning within the interior intestines of Frelimo.” 59 US officials had previously worried...

... examples, has been als, that today we usually think of as “religious” usually mentioned in reference to forbidden prac- and has been subject to changing discourses by tices, such as witchcraft or demon worship, that various Muslim elites in the twentieth century and represent a revolt in the face...