{"product_id":"evil-in-africa-9780253017475","title":"Evil in Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume's richly detailed case studies build bridges between the anthropology of religion and current anthropological theories of morality, ethics, and social suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume will be widely welcomed as dovetailing with a range of recent treatments, notably by Peter Geschiere and Richard Werbner, of how practical wisdom may consist of identifying apparently familiar others as uncanny threats, or alternately of recognizing distortions of the familiar within oneself.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of African History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely book adds to knowledge in the area of African religions. . . . [T]he book is valuable in highlighting how complex evil is as expressed and experienced in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e * Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: African Notions of Evil: The Chimera of Justice \u003cbr\u003eWalter E.A. van Beek and William C. Olsen \u003cbr\u003ePart I. Evil and the State\/War \u003cbr\u003e1. Political Evil: Witchcraft from the Perspective of the Bewitched \u003cbr\u003eSónia Silva \u003cbr\u003e2. Untying Wrongs in Northern Uganda \u003cbr\u003eSusan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika \u003cbr\u003e3. The Evil of Insecurity in South Sudan: Violence and Impunity in Africa's Newest State \u003cbr\u003eJok Madut Jok \u003cbr\u003e4. Genocide, Evil and Human Agency: The Concept of Evil in Rwandan Explanations of the 1994 Genocide \u003cbr\u003eJennie E. Burnet \u003cbr\u003e5. Politics and Cosmographic Anxiety: Kongo and Dagbon Compared \u003cbr\u003eWyatt MacGaffey \u003cbr\u003ePart II. Evil and Religion \u003cbr\u003e6. Ambivalence and the Work of the Negative Among the Yaka \u003cbr\u003eRené Devisch \u003cbr\u003e7. Azé and the Incommensurable \u003cbr\u003eLéocadie Ekoué with Judy Rosenthal \u003cbr\u003e8. Evil and the Art of Revenge in the Mandara Mountains \u003cbr\u003eWalter E.A. van Beek \u003cbr\u003e9. Distinctions in the Imagination of Harm in Contemporary Mijikenda Thought: The Existential Challenge of Majini \u003cbr\u003eDiane Ciekawy \u003cbr\u003e10. Haunted by Absent Others: Movements of Evil in a Nigerian City \u003cbr\u003eUlrika Trovalla \u003cbr\u003e11. Attributions of Evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal \u003cbr\u003eRoy Dilley \u003cbr\u003e12. Reflections regarding Good and Evil: The Complexity of Words in Zanzibar \u003cbr\u003eKjersti Larsen \u003cbr\u003e13. Constructing Moral Personhood: The Moral Test in Tuareg Sociability as a Commentary on Honor and Dishonor \u003cbr\u003eSusan J. Rasmussen \u003cbr\u003e14. The Gender of Evil: Maasai Experiences and Expressions \u003cbr\u003eDorothy L. Hodgson \u003cbr\u003ePart III. Evil and Modernity \u003cbr\u003e15. Neo-Cannibalism, Military Bio-Politics, and the Problem of Human Evil \u003cbr\u003eNancy Scheper-Hughes \u003cbr\u003e16. Theft and Evil in Asante \u003cbr\u003eWilliam C. Olsen \u003cbr\u003e17. Sorcery after Socialism: Liberalization and Anti Witchcraft Practices in Southern Tanzania \u003cbr\u003eMaia Green \u003cbr\u003e18. Transatlantic Pentecostal Demons in Maputo \u003cbr\u003eLinda van de Kamp \u003cbr\u003e19. The Meaning of \"Apartheid\" and the Epistemology of Evil\u003cbr\u003e Adam Ashforth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors and Affiliations \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400548819287,"sku":"9780253017475","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253017475.jpg?v=1730470955","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/evil-in-africa-9780253017475","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}