Witchcraft, intimacy, and trust : Africa in comparison

Author(s)

• Geschiere, Peter

Bibliographic Information

Witchcraft, intimacy, and trust : Africa in comparison

Peter Geschiere

University of Chicago Press, 2013

• : cloth
• : paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• The dangers of home : ethnographical and conceptual explorations
• Witchcraft, intimacy, and changing perceptions of distance : African examples
• To trust a witch
• Comparative perspectives I : witches, neighbors, and the closure of "the House" in Europe
• Comparative perspectives II : Candomblé de Bahia: between witchcraft and religion
• Further comparisons : Melanesia and Java: ontological differences or aphasia before "the uncanny"?
• Back to trust : new distances, new challenges

Details

• NCID: BB13209416
• ISBN:
  • 9780226047584
  • 9780226047614
• LCCN: 2013007997
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: xxviii, 293 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF1584.A35
  • DC23 : 133.4/309
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Witchcraft -- Africa
  • LCSH : Witchcraft -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Witchcraft -- Psychological aspects
  • LCSH : Intimacy (Psychology)
  • LCSH : Trust -- Africa