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245 00 a| Evil in Africah| [electronic resource] :b| encounters with the everyday /c| edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin.;

260 a| Bloomington :b| Indiana University Press,c| [2015];

300 a| ix, 392 pages ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 00 t| Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice /r| Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen --t| Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched /r| Sonia Silva --t| Untying wrongs in northern Uganda /r| Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika --t| The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state /r| Jok Madut Jok --t| Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide /r| Jennie E. Burnet --t| Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared /r| Wyatt MacGaffey --t| Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka /r| Rene Devisch --t| Aze and the incommensurable /r| Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal --t| Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains /r| Walter E. A. van Beek --t| Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini /r| Diane Ciekawy --t| Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city /r| Ulrika Trovalla --t| Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal /r| Roy Dilley --t| Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar /r| Kjersti Larsen --t| Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor /r| Susan J. Rasmussen --t| The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions /r| Dorothy L. Hodgson --t| Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil /r| Nancy Scheper-Hughes --t| Theft and evil in Asante /r| William C. Olsen --t| Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania /r| Maia Green --t| Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo /r| Linda van de Kamp --t| The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil /r| Adam Ashforth.;

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Evil in Africa encounters with the everyday / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin.

Other author	Olsen, William C.
Other author	Beek, W. E. A. van.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Description	ix, 392 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Good and evil. Good and evil--Social aspects. --Africa.

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 -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2015017065
ISBN	9780253017437 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780253017475 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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