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Focusing on the Eastern Cape province, Sean Redding investigates the rise of large-scale lethal fights among men, increasingly coercive abduction marriages, violent acts resulting from domestic troubles and witchcraft accusations within families and communities, and political violence against state policies and officials.

Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: A History of Violence, a Question of Tradition
  • 1 Neighbors and Rivals: Faction Fighting and Traditional Violence in the Rural Transkei
  • 2 “The Girl Is Not Consulted”: Abduction Marriage and Gendered Traditions of Violence
  • 3 Deaths in the Family: Supernatural Harms and Violent Remedies
  • 4 Sons and “Hooligans,” “World-Destroyers” and Rebels: Traditional Violence Takes a
  • Nationalist Turn
  • Conclusion: Rural Violence Reconsidered
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/02/2023
      ISBN13: 9780299341206, 978-0299341206
      ISBN10: 0299341208
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      African history Violence and abuse in society

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Focusing on the Eastern Cape province, Sean Redding investigates the rise of large-scale lethal fights among men, increasingly coercive abduction marriages, violent acts resulting from domestic troubles and witchcraft accusations within families and communities, and political violence against state policies and officials.

      Table of Contents
      • List of Illustrations
      • Preface
      • Introduction: A History of Violence, a Question of Tradition
      • 1 Neighbors and Rivals: Faction Fighting and Traditional Violence in the Rural Transkei
      • 2 “The Girl Is Not Consulted”: Abduction Marriage and Gendered Traditions of Violence
      • 3 Deaths in the Family: Supernatural Harms and Violent Remedies
      • 4 Sons and “Hooligans,” “World-Destroyers” and Rebels: Traditional Violence Takes a
      • Nationalist Turn
      • Conclusion: Rural Violence Reconsidered
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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