Modernity and its malcontents: ritual and power in postcolonial Africa: 1st symposium in Afican Studies: Papers
1993, 1st Paperback Edition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #355299
ISBN: 0226114406
Physical description: xxxvii, 233 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Contents: Narratives of power, images of wealth: the ritual economy of Bori in the market / Adeline Masquelier -- Chewa visions and revisions of power : transformations of the Nyau dance in Central Malawi / Deborah Kaspin -- Government by seduction: history and the tropes of "mounting" in Oyo-Yoruba religion / J. Lorand Matory -- The moral economy of witchcraft: an essay in comparative history / Ralph A. Austen -- Atinga revisited: Yoruba witchcraft and the cocoa economy, 1950-1951 / Andrew Apter -- Bloodhounds who have no friends?" : witchcraft and locality in the Nigerian popular press / Misty L. Bastian -- "Open the wombs!" the symbolic politics of modern Ngoni witchfinding / Mark Auslander -- Black stomachs, beautiful stones: soul-eating among Hausa in Niger / Pamela G. Schmoll. Subjects: Witchcraft Africa. Rites and ceremonies Africa. Power (Social sciences); Congresses. Rites and ceremonies Africa Congresses. Witchcraft Africa Congresses.
Price: €18.00