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Kupilikula
Harry G. West
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Description for Kupilikula
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 336 pages, 31 halftones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 169 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to feed on their victims, sometimes "making" lions or transforming into lions to literally devour their flesh. When the ruling FRELIMO party subscribed to socialism, it condemned sorcery beliefs and counter-sorcery practices as false consciousness, but since undertaking neoliberal reform, the party - still in power after three electoral cycles - has "tolerated tradition," leaving villagers to interpret and engage with events in the idiom of sorcery. Now, when the lions prowl plateau villages, suspected sorcerers are often lynched. In this historical ethnography of sorcery, Harry G. West draws on ... Read more
On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to feed on their victims, sometimes "making" lions or transforming into lions to literally devour their flesh. When the ruling FRELIMO party subscribed to socialism, it condemned sorcery beliefs and counter-sorcery practices as false consciousness, but since undertaking neoliberal reform, the party - still in power after three electoral cycles - has "tolerated tradition," leaving villagers to interpret and engage with events in the idiom of sorcery. Now, when the lions prowl plateau villages, suspected sorcerers are often lynched. In this historical ethnography of sorcery, Harry G. West draws on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226894058
SKU
V9780226894058
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About Harry G. West
Harry G. West is lecturer in social anthropology in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He is the editor or coeditor of three previous volumes, including, most recently, Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order.
Reviews for Kupilikula
"Kupilikula is one of the finest examinations of contemporary sorcery that I have read. The writing is clear and unencumbered. The ethnography is rich and nuanced. By the end of the book, the reader has a significantly more profound comprehension of the thorny thicket of contemporary African politics. This is a major contribution to African studies, political anthropology, and the ... Read more