Witchcraft, intimacy, and trust : Africa in comparison

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Main Author: Geschiere, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • The dangers of home: ethnographical and conceptual explorations
  • Witchcraft, intimacy, and changing perceptions of distance: African examples
  • To trust a witch
  • Comparative perspectives I: witches, neighbors, and the closure of "the House" in Europe
  • Comparative perspectives II: Candombl? de Bahia: between witchcraft and religion
  • Further comparisons: Melanesia and Java: ontological differences or aphasia before "the uncanny"
  • Back to trust: new distances, new challenges.