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Author Niehaus, Isak A. (Isak Arnold)

Title Witchcraft, power, and politics : exploring the occult in the South African lowveld / Isak Niehaus, with Eliazaar Mohlala and Kally Shokane.

Publication Info. Cape Town : David Philip ; London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Anthropology, culture, and society
Anthropology, culture, and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-240) and index.
Contents Introduction: exploring witchcraft, power and politics -- Society, cosmology and the making of witchcraft: continuity and change in the history of Green Valley, 1864-1995 -- Witches of the Lowveld and their familiars: conceptions of duality, power and desire -- Witchcraft and whites: further notes on the symbolic constitution of occult power -- Witches, cognates, affines and neighbours: the changing distribution of witchcraft accusations -- 'A witch has no horn': social tensions in the subjective reality of witchcraft -- Witch-hunting and political legitimacy: chiefs, comrades and the elimination of evil, 1930-1989 -- The ANC's dilemma: the symbolic politics of four witch-hunts in the 1990s -- Conclusion: witchcraft and the postcolonial state -- Appendix A. Fieldwork revisited -- Appendix B. Public perception map of South Africa -- Appendix C. The witchcraft suppression act no. 3 of 1957 -- Appendix D. Details of the alleged witches violently attacked, green valley, 1971-1985 -- Appendix E. Details pertaining to the victims of witch-hunts organised by the comrades, Green Valley, 1986-1989 -- Appendix F. Details of those accused of witchcraft, Green Valley, the Christmas witch-hunts, 1990 -- Appendix G. Details of those accused of witchcraft, new lines, Arthur's seat, October 1993 -- Appendix H. Details of those accused of witchcraft, Rooiboklaagte, November 1994 -- Appendix I. 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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Witchcraft -- South Africa.
Witchcraft.
South Africa.
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1978-1989.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Mohlala, Eliazaar.
Shokane, Kally.
Other Form: Print version: Niehaus, Isak A. (Isak Arnold). Witchcraft, power, and politics. Cape Town : David Philip ; London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001 0745315631 (DLC) 00012646 (OCoLC)45466081
ISBN 9781849640749 (electronic book)
1849640742 (electronic book)
0745315631 (hardcover)
9780745315638 (hardcover)
0745315585 (paperback)
9780745315584 (paperback)
0864863799 (David Philip)
9780864863799 (David Philip)