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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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen
- Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva
- Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika
- The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok
- Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet
- Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey
- Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch
- Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal
- Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E. A. van Beek
- Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy
- Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla
- Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley
- Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen
- Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen
- The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson
- Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
- Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen
- Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green
- Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp
- The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth.