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Kniha Kupilikula Harry G. West

Kupilikula

Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique

Autor: Harry G. West
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: The University of Chicago Press
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to feed on their victims, sometimes...

Informace o knize

Autor
Harry G. West
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2005
Stránek
336
EAN
9780226894058
ISBN
0226894053
Enbook ID
04550442
Vydavatel
The University of Chicago Press
Hmotnost
594
Rozměry
228 x 153 x 28

Kompletní popis

On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to feed on their victims, sometimes "making" lions or transforming into lions to literally devour their flesh. When the ruling FRELIMO party subscribed to socialism, it condemned sorcery beliefs and counter-sorcery practices as false consciousness, but since undertaking neoliberal reform, the party - still in power after three electoral cycles - has "tolerated tradition," leaving villagers to interpret and engage with events in the idiom of sorcery. Now, when the lions prowl plateau villages, suspected sorcerers are often lynched. In this historical ethnography of sorcery, Harry G. West draws on a decade of fieldwork and combines the perspectives of anthropology and political science to reveal how Muedans expect responsible authorities to monitor the invisible realm of sorcery and to overturn or, as Muedans call it, "kupilikula" sorcerers' destructive attacks by practicing a constructive form of counter-sorcery themselves. "Kupilikula" argues that, where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity, Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a world transformed.

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