{"product_id":"african-science-witchcraft-vodun-and-healing-in-southern-benin-9780299318949","title":"African Science  Witchcraft Vodun and Healing in Southern Benin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this sensitive and personal investigation into Benin's occult world, Douglas Falen wrestles with the challenges of encountering a reality in which magic, science, and the Vodun religion converge into a single universal force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stunning achievement in the anthropology of religion. Weaving together narrative and analysis, Falen provides a gripping account of the imponderables that constitute the occult in Benin. He demonstrates how African science can refine our comprehension of fidelity and betrayal, health and illness, science and religion, and life and death—the philosophical themes that define our humanity.\" - Paul Stoller, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Sorcery's Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Guides readers straight into the untranslatable Beninois world of \u003ci\u003eàze\u003c\/i\u003e on its own terms. Falen's sensitivity and commitment to local framings and his accessible experiential narratives make this an ideal ethnography with which to explore the ontological turn, as well as a marvelously provocative challenge to the bulwarked categories separating science from magic and religion.\" - Sasha Newell, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Modernity Bluff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAfrican Science\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of ethnography and among the best books available on African spirituality.\" - \u003ci\u003eNova Religio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Note on Fon Transcription and Pronunciation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1 \u003ci\u003eÀzě\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBǒ\u003c\/i\u003e: Witchcraft and Sorcery in Benin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2 Black and White: Witchcraft, Science, and Identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3 Whose Reality?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4 Religion and the Occult: Opposition and Connection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5 Healing and the Globalization of Witchcraft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e  Notes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e References\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52083889832279,"sku":"9780299318949","price":18.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780299318949.jpg?v=1762204212","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-science-witchcraft-vodun-and-healing-in-southern-benin-9780299318949","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}