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Author : R. G. Abrahams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft in Contemporary Tanzania written by R. G. Abrahams and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman N. Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Sorcery in Tanzania written by Norman N. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman N. Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Sorcery in Tanzania written by Norman N. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 17 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 : 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 : Norman N. Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Sorcery in Tanzania written by Norman N. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Koen Stroeken
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845457358
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Moral Power written by Koen Stroeken and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patient's recovery. Healers turn the table on the witch through rituals showing that the community and the ancestral spirits side with the victim. In contrast to biomedicine, their magic and divination introduce moral values that assess the state of the system and that remove the obstacles to what is taken as key: self-healing. The implied 'sensory shifts' and therapeutic effectiveness have largely eluded the literature on witchcraft. This book shows how to comprehend culture other than through the prism of identity politics. It offers a framework to comprehend the rise of witch killings and human sacrifice, just as ritual initiation disappears.
Author : Norman N. Miller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438443595
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Encounters with Witchcraft written by Norman N. Miller and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with Witchcraft is a personal story of a young man's fascination with African witchcraft discovered first in a trek across East Africa and the Congo. The story unfolds over four decades during the author's long residence in and many trips to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. As a field researcher he learns from villagers what it is like to live with witches, and how witches are seen through African eyes. His teachers are healers, cult leaders, witch-hunters and self-proclaimed "witches" as well as policemen, politicians and judges. A key figure is Mohammadi Lupanda, a frail village woman whose only child has died years before. In her dreams, however, she believes the little girl is not dead, but only lost in the fields. Mohammadi is discovered wandering at night, wailing and calling out for the child. Her neighbors are terror-stricken and she is quickly brought to a village trial and banished as a witch. The author is able to watch and listen to the proceedings and later investigate the deeper story. He discovers mysteries about Mohammadi that are only solved when he returns to the village three decades later. Today, witch-hunting and witchcraft-related crimes are found in more than seventy developing countries. Epidemics of violence against alleged witches, mainly women, but including elders of both genders, and even children is on the increase in some parts of the world. Witchcraft beliefs may lie behind vigilante murders, political assassinations, revenge killings and commercial murders for human body parts. Through African voices the author addresses key questions. Do witchcraft powers exist? Why does witchcraft persist? What are its historic roots? Why is witchcraft-based violence so often found within families? Does witchcraft serve as a hidden legal and political system, a mafia-like under-government? The author holds up a mirror for us to think about religious beliefs in our own experience that rely heavily on myth and superstition.
Author : Simeon Mesaki
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Witch-killings in Tanzania written by Simeon Mesaki and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Solomon Mombeshora
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Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Witches, Witchcraft and the Question of Order written by Solomon Mombeshora and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. E. S. Tanner
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171060099
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Witch Murders in Sukumaland written by R. E. S. Tanner and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1970 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simeon Mesaki
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Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Relevance and Significance of Witchcraft in Today's Tanzania written by Simeon Mesaki and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel A. Offiong
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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 : Knut Rio
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319560689
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Pentecostalism and Witchcraft written by Knut Rio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated in spiritual warfare, in crusades, and in healing or witch-killing raids. The contributors highlight what happens to phenomena that people address as locally specific witchcraft or sorcery when re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology.
Author : Maia Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139435205
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Priests, Witches and Power written by Maia Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of colonial mission, Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania. In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania. Setting the adoption of Christianity and the suppression of witchcraft in a historical context, she suggests that power relations established during the colonial period continue to hold between both popular Christianity and orthodoxy, and local populations and indigenous clergy. Paradoxically, while local practices around the constitution of kinship and personhood remain defiantly free of Christian elements, they inform a popular Christianity experienced as a system of substances and practices. This book offers a challenge to idealist and interpretative accounts of African participation in twentieth-century religious forms, and argues for a politically grounded analysis of historical processes. It will appeal widely to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology and African Studies; particularly those interested in religion and kinship.
Author : Anders Kaliff
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443858765
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions written by Anders Kaliff and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do traditions disappear? How is the disappearance of tradition also a vehicle for social change and re-inventions of practices and new traditions? Using case studies from one Sukuma area along the southern shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, global processes of how religions work in practice are analysed by focusing on rainmaking, witchcraft and Christianity. Traditionally, Sukuma society was culturally and cosmologically structured around the chief, the ancestors and rainmaking. Everything was dependent upon the rain. Rainmaking as a ritual practice has disappeared and ancestral propitiations are declining, while, at the same time, Christianity is spreading and witchcraft and witch killings are increasing. Although Christianity as a religion may provide answers and hopes for life after death, the religion provides few solutions in the here and now when it comes to poverty and suffering; problems and challenges that have to be solved. Witchcraft, on the other hand, does, or is believed to do so – and the increase in witchcraft is analysed in relation to the impacts of more than a century of globalisation from the missionaries and colonizers onwards. With the declining ancestral tradition, witchcraft and Christianity as religious practices supplement each other in the ways they are believed to work in providing answers, solutions or divine interferences in different realms; this world and the Otherworld. Offering an approach going beyond structural functionalism on different premises, the book’s focus on religion at work will facilitate new understandings of how to study religion as it is perceived and believed in practice.
Author : Alan Harwood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Social Classification in a Bantu-speaking Tribe of Southwestern Tanzania written by Alan Harwood and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
