Acceso electrónico

Materias:

“…Casa de África…”

Materias: “…Cooperativismo y desarrollo económico y social Africa…”

Accés Lliure

“…Xina Relacions exteriors Àfrica 1949-1970…”

Materias: “…Globalització (Economia) Àfrica subsahariana…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prologue: first encounter -- The colonial days -- An archeologist's view of witchcraft -- Ancient spirit paintings -- Lion-men and colonial witch trials -- Angry man with a cross-bow -- Witchcraft and the Congo pygmies -- Crocodile bile and the poison principle -- Living with witches -- The witchcraft trial of Mohammadi -- The woman who poisoned a chief -- The issue of death by suggestion -- Witchcraft symbols in western Tanzania -- Reflections on Mohammadi -- Through African eyes: the arts -- The gift of an execution mask -- Seeing witchcraft images in nature -- The witch's toolkit: implements and artifacts -- Guns, throwing knives and power symbols -- Spirit art and the ideas of an African chief -- Witch-hunters and witch-cleansers -- Secrets of a professional witch hunter -- Using witch hunters for political coercion -- A famous witch-cleanser in Malawi -- Faith healers, snake handlers, herbalists -- Kajiwe (little stone), Kenyan witch-hunter -- Witchcraft and violence -- Meeting Idi Amin in Uganda -- State-sponsored terror with witchcraft skin gangs and secret societies on trial: witchcraft court cases -- A rough map of witchcraft in eastern Africa -- The spirit wars -- How prophet movements use witchcraft healing -- The sick by the sea -- "Evil eye" among desert people -- Witchcraft violence in an African Christian church -- Missionary zeal: African spirits versus Christian spirits -- Witchcraft and juju economics -- Smuggling of witchcraft poisons and products -- Long distance trade in protective medicines -- The healer's trade: witchcraft as a diagnosis -- Commercialization and urbanization of witchcraft -- Spirit art, devil art and modern art for profit -- Witch beliefs as barriers to economic development -- Political witchcraft -- Witchcraft threats and mafia-like politics -- The Tanzanian holocaust: the Sungusungu killings -- Meeting Kenya's President Moi -- Devil cults in Nairobi: alleged satanic practices -- The use of witchcraft in Uganda's…”
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