Perspectives on African witchcraft / / edited by Mariano Pavanello

• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 pages)
• Disciplina: 133.4/30967
• Soggetto topico: Witchcraft - Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Altri autori: PavanelloMariano <1944->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Perspectives on African witchcraft
• ISBN: 1-315-43990-5; 1-315-43992-1; 1-315-43991-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910155135503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II