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Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in Comparison
Peter Geschiere
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Description for Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in Comparison
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; HRQX5; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 508.
In Dante's Inferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust, Peter Geschiere sketches it as a central ember at the core of human relationships, one brutally revealed in the practice of witchcraft. Examining witchcraft in its variety of forms throughout the globe, he shows how this often misunderstood practice is deeply structured by intimacy and the powers it affords. In doing so, he offers not only a comprehensive look ... Read more
In Dante's Inferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust, Peter Geschiere sketches it as a central ember at the core of human relationships, one brutally revealed in the practice of witchcraft. Examining witchcraft in its variety of forms throughout the globe, he shows how this often misunderstood practice is deeply structured by intimacy and the powers it affords. In doing so, he offers not only a comprehensive look ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226047614
SKU
V9780226047614
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About Peter Geschiere
Peter Geschiere is professor of African anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of many books, including, most recently The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europe, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in Comparison
"Peter Geschiere presents a sensitive interpretation 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 ... Read more