03569nam 2200589 450 991079763290332120200520144314.00-253-01750-5(CKB)3710000000485600(EBL)4012075(SSID)ssj0001555166(PQKBManifestationID)16179016(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001555166(PQKBWorkID)12894242(PQKB)11733571(OCoLC)923809751(MdBmJHUP)muse50599(Au-PeEL)EBL4012075(CaPaEBR)ebr11116864(CaONFJC)MIL895085(OCoLC)925975564(MiAaPQ)EBC4012075(EXLCZ)99371000000048560020150429h20162016 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEvil in Africa encounters with the everyday /edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David ParkinBloomington :Indiana University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (405 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-01747-5 0-253-01743-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Good and evilGood and evilSocial aspectsAfricaGood and evil.Good and evilSocial aspects170.96Olsen William C.Beek W. E. A. vanMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797632903321Evil in Africa3823723UNINA