ISBN: 9780226894058 - kupilikula: governance and the invisible realm in mozambique (14 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. xxviii, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Contents: The settlement of the Mueda Plateau and the making of Makonde -- Provocation and authority, schism and solidarity -- Meat, power, and the feeding of appetites -- The invisible realm -- Healing visions -- Victims or perpetrators? -- Complicated careers -- Sorcery of construction -- Imagined conquerors -- Consuming labor and its products -- Christianity and Makonde tradition -- Conversation and conversion -- Christians, pagans, and sorcery -- Night people -- Deadly games of hide-and-seek -- Revolution, science, and sorcery -- Rewriting the landscape -- The villagization of sorcery -- Self-defense and self-enrichment -- The "resurgence of tradition" -- Neoliberal reform and Mozambican tradition -- Limited recognition -- Transcending traditions -- Uncertain knowledge -- Postwar uncivil society -- Democratization and/of the use of force -- Governing in the twilight -- Constitutional reform and perpetual suspicion.…

Zustand: New. pp. 336 5 Maps.

Zustand: New. Argues that, where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity, Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a world transformed. Num Pages: 336 pages, 31 halftones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 169 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522. . 2005. New edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Zustand: New. Argues that, where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity, Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a world transformed.&U.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to feed on their victims, sometimes 'making' lions or transforming into lions to literally devour their flesh. When the ruling FRELIMO party subscribed to socialism, it condemned sorcery beliefs and countersorcery practices as false consciousness, but since undertaking neoliberal reform, the party--still in power after three electoral cycles--has 'tolerated tradition,' leaving villagers to interpret and engage with events in the idiom of sorcery. Now when the lions prowl plateau villages, suspected sorcerers are often lynched.In this historical ethnography of sorcery, Harry G. West draws on a decade of fieldwork and combines the perspectives of anthropology and political science to reveal how Muedans expect responsible authorities to monitor the invisible realm of sorcery and to overturn or, as Muedans call it, 'kuplikula' sorcerers' destructive attacks by practicing a constructive form of countersorcery themselves. 'Kupilikula 'argues that, where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity, Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a world transformed.…