Author: Geschiere, Peter
Title: The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa
Description: Charlorttesville [VA], University Press of Virginia, (1997). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii,311 pp, English translation of 'Sorcellerie et politique en Afrique: La viande des autres" [1995].. Textual map.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Witchcraft as Political Discourse; A Full Belly: The Maka & the Djambe; The Vaeriable Faces of Sorcery & Witchcraft; Witchcraft & Local Politics: The Dialectics of Equality & Ambition; Witchcraft & National Politics: The Paradoxe of the New Elite; The Temptations of Power; Witchcraft & the Art of Getting Rich: Regional Variations; The State Attacks: Offensive Against Witches; Balance; Afterword: The Meanderings of Anthropological Discourse on Witchcraft.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Postcolonial, Witchcraft Occult, West Africa, Cameroon Sorcery, Political History, Politics, Ethnology, Sociology Social