Moral Power : : The Magic of Witchcraft / / Koen Stroeken.

Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patient’s recovery. Healers turn the table on the witch through...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Epistemologies of Healing ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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