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Witchcraft, power, and politics : exploring the occult in the South African lowveld / Isak Niehaus, with Eliazaar Mohlala and Kally Shokane.
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Niehaus, Isak A. (Isak Arnold)
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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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Witchcraft
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South Africa
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Mohlala, Eliazaar
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Shokane, Kally
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Series
Anthropology, culture, and society
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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.
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ISBN
0745315631 ((hardcover))
9780745315638 ((hardcover))
0745315585 ((pbk.))
9780745315584 ((pbk.))
0864863799
9780864863799
LCCN
00012646
OCLC
45466081
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