Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E.A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin.
Contributor(s): Olsen, William C [editor.] | Beek, W. E. A. van [editor.]
Material type: TextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: ix, 392 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780253017437; 0253017432; 9780253017475; 0253017475Subject(s): Good and evil | Good and evil -- Social aspects -- AfricaDDC classification: 170.96 LOC classification: BJ1406 | .E96 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BJ1406 .E96 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903508618 |
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BJ1406 .D49 2008 The idea of evil / | BJ1406 .D495 2007 Dimensions of evil : contemporary perspectives / | BJ1406 .E95 1998 Evil and suffering / | BJ1406 .E96 2015 Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / | BJ1406 .G45 1997 The risk of being : what it means to be good and bad / | BJ1406 .J6 1943 God and evil / | BJ1406 .K56 2002 When religion becomes evil / |
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.