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UNINA9910155135503321 |
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Titolo |
Perspectives on African witchcraft / / edited by Mariano Pavanello |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-43990-5 |
1-315-43992-1 |
1-315-43991-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Witchcraft - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Agencies, jurisdictions and paradigms in the shaping of witchcraft / Mariano Pavanello -- 2. Witchcraft, medicine and British colonial rule : anthropological analysis of colonial documents in the Gold Coast / Elisa Vasconi -- 3. Witchcraft and dream : a discussion of the Akan case / Mariano Pavanello -- 4. Witchcraft and religion in the process of formation of the public space in Ghana / Angelantonio Grossi -- 5. Where Christianity is ancient : Pentecostalism, evil in the world and the break with the past Ethiopia / Pino Schirripa -- 6. "Be Yesus Sh'm" : breaking with the national past in Eritrean and Ethiopian Pentecostal churches in Rome / Osvaldo Costantini -- 7. "I went out into the street. and now I am fighting for my life." : street children, witchcraft accusations, and the collapse of the household in Bangui (Central African Republic) / Andrea Ceriana Mayneri -- 8. Fields of experience : in between healing and harming. On conversation between Dogon healers and sorcerers / Roberto Beneduce. |
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