LEADER 04576nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910821769603321 005 20230207231736.0 010 $a1-282-16644-1 010 $a9786613809513 010 $a0-226-76459-1 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226764597 035 $a(CKB)2550000000110991 035 $a(EBL)977910 035 $a(OCoLC)804664924 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000687354 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12259903 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000687354 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10757122 035 $a(PQKB)10107691 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC977910 035 $a(DE-B1597)523119 035 $a(OCoLC)1135576779 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226764597 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL977910 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10582958 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL380951 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000110991 100 $a20080108d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBewitching development $ewitchcraft and the reinvention of development in neoliberal Kenya /$fJames Howard Smith 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 225 1 $aChicago studies in practices of meaning 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-76457-5 311 $a0-226-76458-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBewitching development : the disintegration and reinvention of development in Kenya -- I still exist! Taita historicity -- Development's other : witchcraft as development through the looking glass -- "Each household is a kingdom" : development and witchcraft at home -- "Dot com will die seriously!" spatiotemporal miscommunication and competing sovereignties in Taita thought and ritual -- NGOs, gender, and sovereign child -- Democracy victorious: exorcising witchcraft from development -- Conclusion: Tempopolitics, or why development should not be defined as the improvement of living standards. 330 $aThese days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies as latter day imperialism, such plans too closely reflect their roots in colonial rule and neoliberal economics. But proponents of this pessimistic view often ignore how significant this concept has become for Africans themselves. In Bewitching Development, James Howard Smith presents a close ethnographic account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of development thought and practice, focusing on the complex ways that development connects with changing understandings of witchcraft. Similar to magic, development's promise of a better world elicits both hope and suspicion from Wataita. Smith shows that the unforeseen changes wrought by development-greater wealth for some, dashed hopes for many more-foster moral debates that Taita people express in occult terms. By carefully chronicling the beliefs and actions of this diverse community-from frustrated youths to nostalgic seniors, duplicitous preachers to thought-provoking witch doctors-BewitchingDevelopment vividly depicts the social life of formerly foreign ideas and practices in postcolonial Africa. 410 0$aChicago studies in practices of meaning. 606 $aTaita (African people)$xSocial life and customs 606 $aTaita (African people)$xRites and ceremonies 606 $aWitchcraft$zKenya$zTaita Hills 606 $aEconomic development$zKenya$zTaita Hills 607 $aTaita Hills (Kenya)$xEconomic conditions 610 $awitches, witchcraft, anthropology, anthropological, kenya, kenyan, african, africa, development, imperialism, imperial, colonialism, colonial, neoliberal, neoliberalism, political, politics, government, governing, economics, economy, ethnography, ethnographic, wataita, magic, morality, morals, occult, occultism, diversity, witch doctors, postcolonial, postcolonialism, taita hills, social live, customs, ceremonies, reinvention, miscommunication, living standards. 615 0$aTaita (African people)$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aTaita (African people)$xRites and ceremonies. 615 0$aWitchcraft 615 0$aEconomic development 676 $a305.896/395 700 $aSmith$b James Howard$01597878 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821769603321 996 $aBewitching development$93932037 997 $aUNINA