Witchcraft, power, and politics : exploring the occult in the South African lowveld / Isak Niehaus, with Eliazaar Mohlala and Kally Shokane.

Author
Niehaus, Isak A. (Isak Arnold) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cape Town : David Philip ; London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.
Description
xx, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

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      Subject(s)
      Series
      Anthropology, culture, and society [More in this series]
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-240) and index.
      Contents
      • Introduction: exploring witchcraft, power and politics
      • Society, cosmology and the making of witchcraft: continuity and change in the history of Green Valley, 1864-1995
      • Witches of the Lowveld and their familiars: conceptions of duality, power and desire
      • Witchcraft and whites: further notes on the symbolic constitution of occult power
      • Witches, cognates, affines and neighbours: the changing distribution of witchcraft accusations
      • 'A witch has no horn': social tensions in the subjective reality of witchcraft
      • Witch-hunting and political legitimacy: chiefs, comrades and the elimination of evil, 1930-1989
      • The ANC's dilemma: the symbolic politics of four witch-hunts in the 1990s
      • Conclusion: witchcraft and the postcolonial state
      • Appendix A. Fieldwork revisited
      • Appendix B. Public perception map of South Africa
      • Appendix C. The witchcraft suppression act no. 3 of 1957
      • Appendix D. Details of the alleged witches violently attacked, green valley, 1971-1985
      • Appendix E. Details pertaining to the victims of witch-hunts organised by the comrades, Green Valley, 1986-1989
      • Appendix F. Details of those accused of witchcraft, Green Valley, the Christmas witch-hunts, 1990
      • Appendix G. Details of those accused of witchcraft, new lines, Arthur's seat, October 1993
      • Appendix H. Details of those accused of witchcraft, Rooiboklaagte, November 1994
      • Appendix I. The Witchcraft Control Act as proposed by the commission of inquiry into witchcraft violence and ritual murders in the northern province of the Republic of South Africa.
      ISBN
      • 0745315631 ((hardcover))
      • 9780745315638 ((hardcover))
      • 0745315585 ((pbk.))
      • 9780745315584 ((pbk.))
      • 0864863799
      • 9780864863799
      LCCN
      00012646
      OCLC
      45466081
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