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Author: John Hund
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWitchcraft accusations and violence are generating new forms of popular 'justice' that threaten to destabilize the state's administration of justice. What is to be done?
Author: Adam Ashforth
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005-01-15
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780226029733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLarge numbers of people in Soweto & other parts of South Africa live in fear of witchcraft, presenting complex & unique problems for the government. Adam Ashforth explores the challenge of occult violence & the spiritual insecurity that it engenders to democratic rule in South Africa.
Author: South African Law Reform Commission
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9780621442083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9004436421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang unpack the contentious South African government’s post-apartheid policy framework of the ‘‘return to tradition policy’’. The conjuncture between deep sociopolitical crises, witchcraft, the ravaging HIV/AIDS pandemic and the government’s initial reluctance to adopt antiretroviral therapy turned away desperate HIV/AIDS patients to traditional healers. Drawing on historical sources, policy documents and ethnographic interviews, Pemunta and Tabenyang convincingly demonstrate that despite biomedical hegemony, patients and members of their therapy-seeking group often shuttle between modern and traditional medicine, thereby making both systems of healthcare complementary rather than alternatives. They draw the attention of policy-makers to the need to be aware of ‘‘subaltern health narratives’’ in designing health policy.
Author: Mensah Adinkrah
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015-08-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1782385614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWitchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative witches is prevalent. Purported witches are blamed for all manner of adversities including inexplicable illnesses and untimely deaths. As in other historical periods and other societies, in contemporary Ghana, alleged witches are typically female, elderly, poor, and marginalized. Childhood socialization in homes and schools, exposure to mass media, and other institutional mechanisms ensure that witchcraft beliefs are transmitted across generations and entrenched over time. This book provides a detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices and their role in fueling violent attacks on alleged witches by aggrieved individuals and vigilante groups.
Author: Isak Niehaus
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2001-05-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745315584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an extraordinary contemporary account of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the modern world. A powerful ethnographic study of witch-hunting in 1980s South Africa – a period of rapid social change – this book demonstrates the extent to which witchcraft must be seen, not as a residue of ‘traditional’ culture but as part of a complex social drama which is deeply embedded in contemporary political and economic processes. Isak Niehaus provides the context for this fascinating study of witchcraft practices. He shows how witchcraft was politicised against the backdrop of the apartheid state, the liberation struggle and the establishment of the first post-apartheid regime, which all affected conceptions of witchcraft. Niehaus demonstrates how the ANC and other political groups used witchcraft beliefs to further their own agenda. He explores the increasingly conservative role of the chiefs and the Christian church. In the process, he reveals the fraught nature of intergenerational and gender relations. The result is a truly insightful and theoretically engaged account of a much-studied but frequently misunderstood practice.
Author: M Christian Green
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Published: 2018-05-16
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1928314422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecurity is a key topic of our time. But how do we understand it? Do law and religion take different views of it? In this fifth volume in the Law and Religion in Africa series, radicalisation, terrorism, blasphemy, hate speech, religious freedom and just war theories rub shoulders with issues of witchcraft, female genital mutilation circumcision, child marriage, displaced communities and additional issues besides. This unique collection of topics is both challenging and inspiring, providing illumination in troubled times, and forming a sound foundation for future scholarship.
Author: Binaifer Nowrojee
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781564321626
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Author: Cath Senker
Publisher: Cherrytree Books
Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1842345869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of a series of titles which examines life in other countries through simple information and the letters of a young child to a pen-friend. Topics covered include home and school life, leisure pursuits, religious worship, and the working life of each child's parents.
Author: Adam Ashforth
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-07-02
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 022632253X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn March 2009, in a small town in Malawi, a nurse at the local hospital was accused of teaching witchcraft to children. Amid swirling rumors, “Mrs. K.” tried to defend her reputation, but the community nevertheless grew increasingly hostile. The legal, social, and psychological trials that she endured in the struggle to clear her name left her life in shambles, and she died a few years later. In The Trials of Mrs. K., Adam Ashforth studies this and similar stories of witchcraft that continue to circulate in Malawi. At the heart of the book is Ashforth’s desire to understand how claims to truth, the pursuit of justice, and demands for security work in contemporary Africa, where stories of witchcraft can be terrifying. Guiding us through the history of legal customs and their interactions with the court of public opinion, Ashforth asks challenging questions about responsibility, occult forces, and the imperfect but vital mechanisms of law. A beautifully written and provocative book, The Trials of Mrs. K. will be an essential text for understanding what justice means in a fragile and dangerous world.
