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Author : Peter Labouchere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Magic, Witchcraft, and Divination in Zambia written by Peter Labouchere and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heidi Holland
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143527851
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)
Download or read book African Magic written by Heidi Holland and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa's traditional beliefs - including ancestor worship, divination and witchcraft - continue to dominate its spiritual influences. Readers in search of a better understanding of the continent will be enriched by this book's timely exploration of sub-Saharan Africa's natural philosophy. The author's meticulous research reveals that, whereas technology-driven Western societies prefer to rely largely on logical explanations, many Africans continue to obey their intuition - trusting in images, dreams and divination to rationalise misfortune and illness. African Magic explains why so many Africans understand the relationship between people and unfortunate events not through the Western concept of chance in the case of accidents, or germ theory in the case of illness, but through belief in witchcraft. The book records a collection of true stories which illustrate this traditional belief system. Included are the famous Malawian diviner whose prophecies were considered so accurate that people flocked from neighbouring countries to consult him; a group of Western-trained Mozambican psychologists who successfully refined cross-cultural therapy by working with traditional healers to combat post-traumatic stress syndrome among child soldiers; Ghanaian and Zimbabwean 'witches' living in a nightmare world where popular belief becomes their reality; and a Zambian archbishop whose attempt to embrace traditional African beliefs provoked serious conflict within his Christian church.
Author : Barrie Reynolds
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Magic, Divination and Witchcraft Among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia written by Barrie Reynolds and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Mbunwe-Samba
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956727318
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft, Magic and Divination written by Patrick Mbunwe-Samba and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is largely the personal account by Patrick Mbunwe Samba, of how life in his home village of Binshua has been permeated throughout by belief in witchcraft. The book not only provides a historical account informed by his reminiscences of his childhood, it shows as well that even today, belief in witchcraft is very widespread. Witchcraft exerts a profound influence on society in Binshua and in Cameroon in general. The book also provides accounts of the experiences of others, some of them very recent, and gives examples of what injustices and suffering can be caused by the notion that any misfortune must have been caused by witchcraft. For the overwhelming majority of people in village communities such as Binshua, Samba argues, anything not immediately understandable is witchcraft - which is synonymous with mystery. Many educated Africans, too, revert to such traditional attitudes in stressful situations. It may be thought surprising that in spite of the impact of Christianity, Western culture and the improved level of education, the majority of people still believe in witchcraft, and that this phenomenon not only persists but is actually increasing. The book perplexes and challenges by avoiding to provide simple answers to the question whether which witchcraft is real or imagined.
Author : Katerina Mildnerová
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643902735
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book From Where Does the Bad Wind Blow? written by Katerina Mildnerová and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study deals with the phenomenon of spiritual healing and witchcraft within the field of indigenous medicine and African Independent Churches in the contemporary urban setting of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. Grounded in theoretical concepts of medical and symbolical anthropology, the book analyzes the syncretic character of medical culture and the so-called "therapy shopping" phenomenon. Special attention is paid to the local conceptualization of health, illness and body, cultural aetiology, the social and cultural representation of spirit possession and witchcraft, as well as a description of different types of healers along with their diagnostic and therapeutic praxis. A separate section is dedicated to the symbolical interpretation of witchcraft on the level of theory, system, and practice, based on different case studies. (Series: Anthropology / Ethnologie - Vol. 49) [Subject: Anthropology, African Studies, Religious Studies, Spiritualism, Cultural Studies]
Author : Wendy Elizabeth Field
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft, Sorcery and Divination in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Wendy Elizabeth Field and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113655145X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa written by John Middleton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing ten essays by anthropologists on the beliefs and practices associated with witches and sorcerers in Eastern Africa, the chapters in this book are all based on field research and new information which is studied within its wider social context. First published in 1963.
Author : Daniel A. Offiong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Witchcraft, Sorcery and Magic in Africa written by Daniel A. Offiong and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Akberali Manji
Publisher : Ceshore Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Magic, Faith and Healing written by Akberali Manji and published by Ceshore Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alastair Scobie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Murder for Magic written by Alastair Scobie and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Harwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429950624
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft, Sorcery and Social Categories Among the Safwa written by Alan Harwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1970, this book explores the role of concepts of disease in the social life of the Safwa of Tanzania, particularly through beliefs concerning witchcraft and sorcery. Examining Safwa ideas about the cuasation of disease and death and the use of aetiological terms in actual cases, it demonstrates a parallel between these ideas and terms, on the one hand and the Safwa system of social categories on the other. A descrption of the Safwa environment, way of life and social system is followed by an account of the concepts of death and disease and of their causes as revealed in ancestor rites, divination and autopsy. An analysis of case histories demonstrates that the cause assigned to a particular instance of illness or death depends upon the status relationship between discputing parties who are associated with the patient. The way in which the parallel between aetiological and social categoeis helps to control the outcome of disputes is also examined.
Author : J. R. Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351009222
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rhodesia written by J. R. Crawford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967, this book is a study of witchcraft and sorcery among the Shona, Ndebele and Kalanga peoples of Zimbabwe. It analyses in their social context verbatim evidence and confessions from a comprehensive series of judicial records. It provides the first systematic demonstration of the importance and the exstent to which such sources can be used to make a detailed analysis of the character and range of beliefs and motives. The main emphasis is on witchcraft and sorcery beliefs, the nature of accusations, confessions and divination, btoh traditional and as practised by members of the Pentecostal Church.
Author : Charles Matthew Newton White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Witchcraft, Divination and Magic written by Charles Matthew Newton White and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David J. Collins, S. J.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316239497
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West written by David J. Collins, S. J. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and practice of magic in the West. Its chronological scope extends from the Ancient Near East to twenty-first-century North America; its objects of analysis range from Persian curse tablets to US neo-paganism. For comparative purposes, the volume includes chapters on developments in the Jewish and Muslim worlds, evaluated not simply for what they contributed at various points to European notions of magic, but also as models of alternative development in ancient Mediterranean legacy. Similarly, the volume highlights the transformative and challenging encounters of Europeans with non-Europeans, regarding the practice of magic in both early modern colonization and more recent decolonization.
Author : Frederick Kaigh
Publisher : London : R. Lesley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic of Africa written by Frederick Kaigh and published by London : R. Lesley. This book was released on 1947 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mutumba Mainga
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9982241362
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Bulozi under the Luyana Kings written by Mutumba Mainga and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bulozi under the Luyana Kings was first published in 1973 by Longman, London. After wide consultations at home and abroad, a decision was made to have the book reprinted in its original form. Bulozi under the Luyana Kings is a study of the Lozi Kingdom in Western Zambia in the pre-colonial period. The study traces the origins of the Luyana and the Lozi people; the founding of the Luyana Central Kingship and the invasion by the Makololo in the mid-nineteenth century; and ends with the study of the Lozi response to European intrusion at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author : Gerrie ter Haar
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Imagining Evil written by Gerrie ter Haar and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
