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| Title: | Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa |
| Editors: | Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, John |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Pages: | 233 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Chicago, IL |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| ISBN: | 0226114392; 0226114406 |
| Geographic terms: | Niger Nigeria Zambia Malawi Africa |
| Subjects: | 1990 magic power rites of passage conference papers (form) Cultural Roles Religion and Witchcraft |
| Abstract: | This collective volume on ritual and power in postcolonial Africa originated from a conference held at the University of Chicago in 1990. The first part, '(Re)visions of power, ritual (trans)formations', contains the following contributions: Narratives of power, images of wealth: the ritual economy of 'bori' in the market, by Adeline Masquelier (on Niger); Chewa visions and revisions of power: transformations of the Nyau dance in central Malawi, by Deborah Kaspin; Government by seduction: history and the tropes of 'mounting' in Oyo-Yoruba religion, by J. Lorand Matory (on Nigeria). Part two, 'Moral economics, modern politics, mystical struggles', contains the following contributions: The moral economy of witchcraft: an essay in comparative history, by Ralph A. Austen; Atinga revisited: Yoruba witchcraft and the cocoa economy, 1950-1951, by Andrew Apter; 'Bloodhounds who have no friends': witchcraft and locality in the Nigerian popular press, by Misty L. Bastian; 'Open the wombs!': the symbolic politics of modern Ngoni witchfinding, by Mark Auslander (on Zambia); Black stomachs, beautiful stones: soul-eating among Hausa in Niger, by Pamela G. Schmoll. |
