| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
African studies ; 116
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African studies series ; 116.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Clans and councils, caravans and conquest, cosmology and colonialism : Ukambani in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- Understanding Uoi, Uwe, and Kithitu in Ukambani -- The "cosmology" of the colonial state -- The Wakamba witch trials : a witch-murder in 1930s Kenya -- Witchcraft, murder, and death sentences after Rex v. Kumwaka -- The world of oathing and witchcraft in Mau Mau-era Machakos -- Cleansing Ukambani witches -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses the emergence of imperial networks of knowledge about witchcraft. She then demonstrates how colonial concerns about witchcraft produced an elaborate body of jurisprudence about capital crimes. The book analyzes the legal wrangling that produced the Witchcraft Ordinances in the 1910s, the birth of an anthro-administrative complex surrounding witchcraft in the 1920s, the hotly contested Wakamba Witch Trials of the 1930s, the explosive growth of legal opinion on witch-murder in the 1940s, and the unprecedented state-sponsored cleansings of witches and Mau Mau adherents during the 1950s. A work of anthropological history, this book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft or uoi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
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Witchcraft. |
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Kenya. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- Political aspects -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
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Kamba (African people) -- History -- 20th century.
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Kamba (African people) |
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British -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
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British. |
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Colonial administrators -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
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Colonial administrators. |
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Trials (Witchcraft) -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
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Trials (Witchcraft) |
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Witchcraft -- Law and legislation -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
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Witchcraft -- Law and legislation. |
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Kenya -- Colonial influence.
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Colonial influence. |
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Kenya -- Politics and government -- To 1963.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1963 |
| Subject |
Kenya -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Luongo, Katherine, 1975- Witchcraft and colonial rule in Kenya, 1900-1955. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9781107012189 (DLC) 2011015310 (OCoLC)714505180 |
| ISBN |
9781139161633 (electronic book) |
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1139161636 (electronic book) |
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9780511997914 (electronic book) |
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0511997914 (electronic book) |
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9781107012189 |
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110701218X |
| Standard No. |
9786613342607 |
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