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] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
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