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1 online resource (ix, 392 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E.A. van Beek and William C. Olsen -- Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva -- Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika -- Evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok -- Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet -- Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch -- Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal -- Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E.A. van Beek -- Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy -- Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla -- Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley -- Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen -- Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen -- Gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green -- Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp -- Meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Good and evil.
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Good and evil. |
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Good and evil -- Social aspects -- Africa.
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Good and evil -- Social aspects. |
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Africa. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Olsen, William C., editor.
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Beek, W. E. A. van, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Evil in Africa 9780253017437 (DLC) 2015017065 (OCoLC)894026186 |
| ISBN |
9780253017505 (electronic book) |
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0253017505 (electronic book) |
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9780253017437 |
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0253017432 |
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9780253017475 |
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0253017475 |
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