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Offers a range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror. This title sketches it as a central ember at the core of human relationships, one brutally revealed in the practice of witchcraft.

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"Peter Geschiere presents a sensitive intepretation of witchcraft as both a discourse and a lived reality, zooming into his fine-grained fieldwork material and then zooming back out to give historical, sociological, and political-economic context. As in The Perils of Belonging, he takes what might seem to be exceptional African circumstances and puts them in conversation with comparable cases from other parts of the world, allowing him to clarify what is really at stake-not only in Africa, but all over the globe." (Mike McGovern, author of Unmasking the State)"

Witchcraft Intimacy and Trust

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/9/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226047584, 978-0226047584
      ISBN10: 022604758X
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      Social and cultural anthropology Indigenous peoples: religions

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror. This title sketches it as a central ember at the core of human relationships, one brutally revealed in the practice of witchcraft.

      Trade Review
      "Peter Geschiere presents a sensitive intepretation of witchcraft as both a discourse and a lived reality, zooming into his fine-grained fieldwork material and then zooming back out to give historical, sociological, and political-economic context. As in The Perils of Belonging, he takes what might seem to be exceptional African circumstances and puts them in conversation with comparable cases from other parts of the world, allowing him to clarify what is really at stake-not only in Africa, but all over the globe." (Mike McGovern, author of Unmasking the State)"

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