Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa

Name: Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa
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ISBN: 9780226029740

ISBN-10: 0226029743

ISBN-13: 9780226029740

Edition: 2004

Authors: Adam Ashforth

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Large numbers of people in Soweto & other parts of South Africa live in fear of witchcraft, presenting complex & unique problems for the government. Adam Ashforth explores the challenge of occult violence & the spiritual insecurity that it engenders to democratic rule in South Africa.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Adam Ashforth is the Helmut F. Stern Professor in the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan.



Preface


Acknowledgments


A Note on Nomenclature


Introduction



Soweto



Spiritual Insecurity and Political Power



Dimensions of Insecurity in Contemporary Soweto



On Living in a World with Witches



Freedom, Democracy, and Witchcraft: Soweto in the 1990s



On Believing, and Not Believing, in Witchcraft



Sources of Spiritual Insecurity



Poison, Medicine, and the Power of Secret Knowledge



Death, Pollution, and the Dangers of Dirt



A Brief History of the Spirit World



Invisible Beings in Everyday Life



Vulnerabilities of the Soul



Spiritual Insecurity and the State



Witchcraft, Violence, and Justice



Democratic Statecraft in a World of Witches


Epilogue



The Literature on Soweto—a Brief Excursus



The Thohoyandou Declaration on Ending Witchcraft Violence, Issued by the Commission on Gender Equality


Selected Bibliography


Index