UID:
almafu_9959239731502883
Format:
1 online resource (405 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-253-01750-5
Content:
These studies of evil entanglements take local and national histories and identities into account, including state politics and civil war, religious practices, Islam, gender, and modernity.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice /
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Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched /
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Untying wrongs in northern Uganda /
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The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state /
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Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide /
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Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared /
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Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka /
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Aze and the incommensurable /
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Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains /
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Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini /
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Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city /
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Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal /
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Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar /
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Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor /
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The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions /
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Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil /
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Theft and evil in Asante /
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Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania /
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Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo /
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The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-01747-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-01743-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
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