Kupilikula Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique

Name: Kupilikula Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique
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ISBN: 9780226894041

ISBN-10: 0226894045

ISBN-13: 9780226894041

Edition: 2005

Authors: Harry G. West

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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…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/5/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Tracy J. Luedke is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern Illinois University.Harry G. West is lecturer in Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is author of Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique.



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Immaterial Evidence


Introduction






The Settlement of the Mueda Plateau and the Making of Makonde



Provocation and Authority, Schism and Solidarity



Meat, Power, and the Feeding of Appetites



The Invisible Realm



Healing Visions



Victims or Perpetrators?



Complicated Careers



Sorcery of Construction






Imagined Conquerors



Consuming Labor and Its Products



Christianity and Makonde Tradition



Conversation and Conversion



Christians, Pagans, and Sorcery



Night People



Deadly Games of Hide-and-Seek



Revolution, Science, and Sorcery



Rewriting the Landscape



The Villagization of Sorcery



Self-Defense and Self-Enrichment






The "Resurgence of Tradition"



Neoliberal Reform and Mozambican Tradition



Limited Recognition



Transcending Traditions



Uncertain Knowledge



Postwar Uncivil Society



Democratization and/of the Use of Force



Governing in the Twilight



Constitutional Reform and Perpetual Suspicion


Epilogue: Lines of Succession


Glossary


Notes


References