TY  - BOOK
A2  - Péclard, Didier
A2  - Warnier, Jean-Pierre
T1  - Debating Witchcraft in Africa: The Magritte Effect
N2  - Given the circularity of the witchcraft complex in Africa, given its performative potential, isnt the flood of anthropological publications on the topic counter-productive insofar as it feeds what it pretends to analyse, and even stigmatize? Wouldnt the social scientists be well advised not to emulate the media and the Evangelical preachers and to avoid bestowing on Africa the dubious privilege of being no more than a shadow theatre devoid of substance on the stage of which everything  power, work, production, economy, the family  would actually be played in the occult? In this publication, eight scholars  namely: Jean-Pierre Warnier, Didier Péclard, Julien Bonhomme, Patrice Yengo, Jane Guyer, Joseph Tonda, Francis Nyamnjoh and Peter Geschiere  engage in a lively and contradictory debate on witchcraft/sorcery in Africa in a controversial historical context.
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/60076
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-600766
SN  - 9956-550-50-7
SN  - 978-9956-550-50-0
PB  - Langaa RPCIG
CY  - Bamenda, Cameroon
ER  -