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Evil in Africa


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<p>William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in African cultural and social contexts. These studies of evil entanglements take local and national histories and identities into account, including state politics and civil war, religious practices, Islam, gender, and modernity.</p>
<p>Introduction: African Notions of Evil: The Chimera of Justice <br>Walter E.A. van Beek and William C. Olsen <br>Part I. Evil and the State/War <br>1. Political Evil: Witchcraft from the Perspective of the Bewitched <br>Sónia Silva <br>2. Untying Wrongs in Northern Uganda <br>Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika <br>3. The Evil of Insecurity in South Sudan: Violence and Impunity in Africa's Newest State <br>Jok Madut Jok <br>4. Genocide, Evil and Human Agency: The Concept of Evil in Rwandan Explanations of the 1994 Genocide <br>Jennie E. Burnet <br>5. Politics and Cosmographic Anxiety: Kongo and Dagbon Compared <br>Wyatt MacGaffey <br>Part II. Evil and Religion <br>6. Ambivalence and the Work of the Negative Among the Yaka <br>René Devisch <br>7. Azé and the Incommensurable <br>Léocadie Ekoué with Judy Rosenthal <br>8. Evil and the Art of Revenge in the Mandara Mountains <br>Walter E.A. van Beek <br>9. Distinctions in the Imagination of Harm in Contemporary Mijikenda Thought: The Existential Challenge of Majini <br>Diane Ciekawy <br>10. Haunted by Absent Others: Movements of Evil in a Nigerian City <br>Ulrika Trovalla <br>11. Attributions of Evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal <br>Roy Dilley <br>12. Reflections regarding Good and Evil: The Complexity of Words in Zanzibar <br>Kjersti Larsen <br>13. Constructing Moral Personhood: The Moral Test in Tuareg Sociability as a Commentary on Honor and Dishonor <br>Susan J. Rasmussen <br>14. The Gender of Evil: Maasai Experiences and Expressions <br>Dorothy L. Hodgson <br>Part III. Evil and Modernity <br>15. Neo-Cannibalism, Military Bio-Politics, and the Problem of Human Evil <br>Nancy Scheper-Hughes <br>16. Theft and Evil in Asante <br>William C. Olsen <br>17. Sorcery after Socialism: Liberalization and Anti Witchcraft Practices in Southern Tanzania <br>Maia Green <br>18. Transatlantic Pentecostal Demons in Maputo <br>Linda van de Kamp <br>19. The Meaning of "Apartheid" and the Epistemology of Evil<br> Adam Ashforth</p>
<p>List of Contributors and Affiliations <br>Index</p>
<p>William C. Olsen lectures in the African Studies Program at Georgetown University.</p>
<p>Walter E. A. van Beek is Professor of Anthropology of Religion at Tilburg University. </p>
<p>Particularly valuable for the manner in which religious or mystical notions of evil are linked to more secular ones, notably violence and warfare, fetishes, gender constructs, psychoanalytic processes, personhood, theft, transnational connections, and apartheid.</p>

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