Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa Book

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Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa
Written by author Jean Comaroff
Published by University of Chicago Press, November 1993
What role does ritual play in the everyday lives of modern Africans? How are so-called "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver on its promises? Some of the essays in Moderni
What role does ritual play in the everyday lives of modern Africans? How are so-called "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver on its promises? Some of the essays in

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Preface
Introduction
1 Narratives of Power, Images of Wealth: The Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market 3
2 Chewa Visions and Revisions of Power: Transformations of the Nyau Dance in Central Malawi 34
3 Government by Seduction: History and the Tropes of "Mounting" in Oyo-Yoruba Religion 58
4 The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History 89
5 Atinga Revisited: Yoruba Witchcraft and the Cocoa Economy, 1950-1951 111
6 "Bloodhounds Who Have No Friends": Witchcraft and Locality in the Nigerian Popular Press 129
7 "Open the Wombs!": The Symbolic Politics of Modern Ngoni Witchfinding 167
8 Black Stomachs, Beautiful Stones: Soul-Eating among Hausa in Niger 193
Contributors 221
Index 223

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	Preface
	Introduction
1	Narratives of Power, Images of Wealth: The Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market	3
2	Chewa Visions and Revisions of Power: Transformations of the Nyau Dance in Central Malawi	34
3	Government by Seduction: History and the Tropes of "Mounting" in Oyo-Yoruba Religion	58
4	The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History	89
5	Atinga Revisited: Yoruba Witchcraft and the Cocoa Economy, 1950-1951	111
6	"Bloodhounds Who Have No Friends": Witchcraft and Locality in the Nigerian Popular Press	129
7	"Open the Wombs!": The Symbolic Politics of Modern Ngoni Witchfinding	167
8	Black Stomachs, Beautiful Stones: Soul-Eating among Hausa in Niger	193
	Contributors	221
	Index	223