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

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Place / Publishing House:Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, [2016]
2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (405 pages)
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505 0 0 |t Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice /  |r Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen --  |t Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched /  |r Sonia Silva --  |t Untying wrongs in northern Uganda /  |r Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika --  |t The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state /  |r Jok Madut Jok --  |t Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide /  |r Jennie E. Burnet --  |t Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared /  |r Wyatt MacGaffey --  |t Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka /  |r Rene Devisch --  |t Aze and the incommensurable /  |r Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal --  |t Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains /  |r Walter E. A. van Beek --  |t Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini /  |r Diane Ciekawy --  |t Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city /  |r Ulrika Trovalla --  |t Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal /  |r Roy Dilley --  |t Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar /  |r Kjersti Larsen --  |t Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor /  |r Susan J. Rasmussen --  |t The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions /  |r Dorothy L. Hodgson --  |t Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil /  |r Nancy Scheper-Hughes --  |t Theft and evil in Asante /  |r William C. Olsen --  |t Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania /  |r Maia Green --  |t Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo /  |r Linda van de Kamp --  |t The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil /  |r Adam Ashforth. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
590 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
650 0 |a Good and evil. 
650 0 |a Good and evil  |x Social aspects  |z Africa. 
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700 1 |a Olsen, William C.,  |e editor. 
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