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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Notes on Terminology | |
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| Acronyms | |
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| Maps | |
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| Introduction: Exploring Witchcraft, Power and Politics | |
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| Society, Cosmology and the Making of Witchcraft: Continuity and Change in the History of Green Valley, 1864-1995 | |
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| Witches of the Lowveld and their Familiars: Conceptions of Duality, Power and Desire | |
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| Witchcraft and Whites: Further Notes on the Symbolic Constitution of Occult Power | |
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| Witches, Cognates, Affines and Neighbours: The Changing Distribution of Witchcraft Accusations | |
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| 'A Witch Has No Horn': Social Tensions in the Subjective Reality of Witchcraft | |
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| Witch-Hunting and Political Legitimacy: Chiefs, Comrades and the Elimination of Evil, 1930-1989 | |
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| The ANC's Dilemma: The Symbolic Politics of Four Witch-Hunts in the 1990s | |
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| Conclusion: Witchcraft and the Postcolonial State | |
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| Fieldwork Revisited | |
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| Public Perception Map of South Africa | |
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| The Witchcraft Suppression Act No. 3 of 1957 | |
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| Details of the Alleged Witches Violently Attacked, Green Valley, 1971-1985 | |
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| Details Pertaining to the Victims of Witch-Hunts Organised by the Comrades, Green Valley, 1986-1989 | |
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| Details of those Accused of Witchcraft, Green Valley, The Christmas Witch-Hunts, 1990 | |
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| Details of those Accused of Witchcraft, New Lines, Arthur's Seat, October 1993 | |
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| Details of those Accused of Witchcraft, Rooiboklaagte, November 1994 | |
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| The Witchcraft Control Act as Proposed by the Commission of Inquiry into Witchcraft Violence and Ritual Murders in the Northern Province of the Republic of South Africa | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| South Africa | |
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| Northeastern South Africa, Including former Bantustan Territories | |
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| Northeastern South Africa | |
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| The Wider Bushbuckridge Region, Indicating Villages | |
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| The Wider Bushbuckridge Region | |
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| Green Valley, Including Village Sections | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Green Valley's Churches According to Years Founded and Adult Membership, August 1992 | |
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| Diagnosis of the Underlying Causes of Clients' Problems by Sebongile Ndlovu and Ketebotse Mogale, Green Valley, February 1992 | |
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| The Relationship between those Accused of Witchcraft and their Accuser(s), Green Valley, 1960-1995 | |
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| The Relationship between those Accused of Witchcraft and their Assumed Victims, Green Valley, 1960-1995 | |
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| The Relationship between the Assumed Victims of Witchcraft and their Accuser(s), Green Valley, 1960-1995 | |
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| The Relationship between Plaintiffs and Defendants in Cases Brought Before the kgoro of the Setlhare Chief and Headmen, Green Valley, 1991-1995 | |
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| The Marital Status of Adults in Sampled Households by Gender, Green Valley, 1991-1992 | |
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| The Employment Status of Adults in Sampled Households by Gender and Marital Status, Green Valley, 1991-1992 | |
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| List of Case Studies | |
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| The Headman's Wife | |
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| The Headman's Son | |
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| The Sexually Promiscuous Neighbour | |
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| The Troublesome Father-in-Law | |
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| The Cafe Owner and the Mamlambo | |
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| The Happy Widow | |
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| Affines, Inheritance and Witchcraft | |
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| Lebo Mnisi: Illness, Marital Strife and Dreams | |
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| Sarafina Maatsie: Deviance and the Tenacity of the Witch Label | |
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| Sam Makola: Genealogy and Mysterious Deaths | |
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| Albert Nziane: Dreams and Self-Confession | |
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| Harry Chiloane: Rumours of Resurrection | |
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| The Killing of a Poisoner | |
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| Assaulting a Witch | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| The Domestic Situation of Asa Mogogodi | |
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| The Genealogy of Chief Setlhare's Predecessors | |
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| The Domestic Situation of Prudence Maluleke | |