{"product_id":"witchcraft-power-and-politics-exploring-the-occult-in-the-south-african-lowveld-anthropology-culture-and-society-9780745315584","title":"Witchcraft Power and Politics Exploring the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating study of witchcraft in contemporary South Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Profound and often painful insights into the transformations that have taken place in South Africa' -- Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e'Demonstrates that the recent changes in witchcraft beliefs and persecutions are closely related to those conditions which have exacerbated the misery and poverty of rural Africans in this region' -- Anthrops - International review of anthropology and linguistics.\u003cbr\u003e'An important contribution to the study of contemporary witchcraft in South America.' -- Anthropology in Action\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e  Notes on terminology\u003cbr\u003e  1.  Introduction: Exploring Witchcraft, Power and Politics\u003cbr\u003e  2. Society, Cosmology and the Making of Witchcraft: Continuity and Change in the History of Green\u003cbr\u003e  Valley, 1864-1995\u003cbr\u003e  3. Witches of the Lowveld and Their Familiars: Conceptions of Duality, Power and Desire\u003cbr\u003e  4. Witchcraft and Whites: Further Notes on the Symbolic Constitution of Occult Power\u003cbr\u003e  5. Witches, Cognates, Affines and Neighbours: The Distribution of Witchcraft Accusations, 1960-1995\u003cbr\u003e  6. ‘A Witch Has No Horn’: Social Tensions in the Subjective Reality of Witchcraft\u003cbr\u003e  7. Witch-Hunting and Political Legitimacy: Chiefs, Comrades and the Elimination of Evil, 1930-1990\u003cbr\u003e  8. The ANC's Dilemma: The Symbolic Politics of Four Witch-Hunts in the 1990s\u003cbr\u003e  9. Conclusions: Witchcraft and the Postcolonial State\u003cbr\u003e  Appendices\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  References\u003cbr\u003e  Index","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404282536279,"sku":"9780745315584","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/witchcraft-power-and-politics-exploring-the-occult-in-the-south-african-lowveld-anthropology-culture-and-society-9780745315584","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}