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West, H: Kupilikula - Governance and the Invisible Realm in
Taschenbuch von Harry G. West
Sprache: Englisch

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On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to feed on their victims, sometimes "making" lions or transforming into lions to literally devour their flesh. When the ruling FRELIMO party subscribed to socialism, it condemned sorcery beliefs and countersorcery practices as false consciousness, but since undertaking neoliberal reform, the party--still in power after three electoral cycles--has "tolerated tradition," leaving villagers to interpret and engage with events in the idiom of sorcery. Now when the lions prowl plateau villages, suspected sorcerers are often [...] this historical ethnography of sorcery, Harry G. West draws on a decade of fieldwork and combines the perspectives of anthropology and political science to reveal how Muedans expect responsible authorities to monitor the invisible realm of sorcery and to overturn or, as Muedans call it, "kuplikula" sorcerers' destructive attacks by practicing a constructive form of countersorcery themselves. "Kupilikula "argues that, where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity, Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a world transformed.
On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to feed on their victims, sometimes "making" lions or transforming into lions to literally devour their flesh. When the ruling FRELIMO party subscribed to socialism, it condemned sorcery beliefs and countersorcery practices as false consciousness, but since undertaking neoliberal reform, the party--still in power after three electoral cycles--has "tolerated tradition," leaving villagers to interpret and engage with events in the idiom of sorcery. Now when the lions prowl plateau villages, suspected sorcerers are often [...] this historical ethnography of sorcery, Harry G. West draws on a decade of fieldwork and combines the perspectives of anthropology and political science to reveal how Muedans expect responsible authorities to monitor the invisible realm of sorcery and to overturn or, as Muedans call it, "kuplikula" sorcerers' destructive attacks by practicing a constructive form of countersorcery themselves. "Kupilikula "argues that, where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity, Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a world transformed.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226894058
ISBN-10: 0226894053
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: West, Harry G.
Auflage: New
Hersteller: University of Chicago Pr.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 227 x 154 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Harry G. West
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2005
Gewicht: 0,517 kg
Artikel-ID: 132525505
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226894058
ISBN-10: 0226894053
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: West, Harry G.
Auflage: New
Hersteller: University of Chicago Pr.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 227 x 154 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Harry G. West
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2005
Gewicht: 0,517 kg
Artikel-ID: 132525505
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