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  • Witchcraft, power, and politics = exploring the occult in the South African lowveld /
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    Title/Author: Witchcraft, power, and politics/ Isak Niehaus, with Eliazaar Mohlala and Kally Shokane.
    Reminder of title: exploring the occult in the South African lowveld /
    Author: Niehaus, Isak A.
    other author: Mohlala, Eliazaar.
    Published: Cape Town :David Philip ; : 2001.,
    Description: xx, 246 p. :ill., maps ;22 cm.
    Series: Anthropology, culture, and society
    [NT 15003449]: Introduction: exploring witchcraft, power and politics -- Society, cosmology and the making of witchcraft: continuity and change in the history of Green Valley, 1864-1995 -- Witches of the Lowveld and their familiars: conceptions of duality, power and desire -- Witchcraft and whites: further notes on the symbolic constitution of occult power -- Witches, cognates, affines and neighbours: the changing distribution of witchcraft accusations -- 'A witch has no horn': social tensions in the subjective reality of witchcraft -- Witch-hunting and political legitimacy: chiefs, comrades and the elimination of evil, 1930-1989 -- The ANC's dilemma: the symbolic politics of four witch-hunts in the 1990s -- Conclusion: witchcraft and the postcolonial state -- Appendix A. Fieldwork revisited -- Appendix B. Public perception map of South Africa -- Appendix C. The witchcraft suppression act no. 3 of 1957 -- Appendix D. Details of the alleged witches violently attacked, green valley, 1971-1985 -- Appendix E. Details pertaining to the victims of witch-hunts organised by the comrades, Green Valley, 1986-1989 -- Appendix F. Details of those accused of witchcraft, Green Valley, the Christmas witch-hunts, 1990 -- Appendix G. Details of those accused of witchcraft, new lines, Arthur's seat, October 1993 -- Appendix H. Details of those accused of witchcraft, Rooiboklaagte, November 1994 -- Appendix I. The Witchcraft Control Act as proposed by the commission of inquiry into witchcraft violence and ritual murders in the northern province of the Republic of South Africa.
    Subject: Witchcraft - South Africa. -
    Subject: South Africa - Politics and government - 1978-1989. -
    Online resource: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=72449An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
    ISBN: 0585425582 (electronic bk.)
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