Evil in Africa : : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin.

• TeilnehmendeR: Olsen, William C.,; Beek, W. E. A. van,
• Place / Publishing House: Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, [2016]; 2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 pages)
• Other title: Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice /; Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched /; Untying wrongs in northern Uganda /; The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state /; Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide /; Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared /; Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka /; Aze and the incommensurable /; Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains /; Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini /; Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city /; Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal /; Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar /; Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor /; The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions /; Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil /; Theft and evil in Asante /; Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania /; Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo /; The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780253017437 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780253017475 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780253017505
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin.