Kupilikula Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique

Name: Kupilikula Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique
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ISBN: 9780226894058

ISBN-10: 0226894053

ISBN-13: 9780226894058

Edition: 2005

Authors: Harry G. West

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Argues that where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a world transformed.

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.89" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.144
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