Containing ten essays by anthropologists on the beliefs and practices associated with witches and sorcerers in Eastern Africa, the chapters in this book are all based on field research and new information which is studied within its wider social context.
First published in 1963.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2013

ISBN

9781136551529

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Anthropology

Index

Social Sciences

INDEX

Accusations, patterns of, 9 ff, 19, 24, 30 ff, 74,80, 86 ff, 96 f, 118 ff, 124, 176, 194 f, 198, 201 ff, 218, 241 ff,

245 ff, 250 ff, 260 ff

Age organization, 7, 130, 132, 177, 204 f, 209 f, 215, 217

Amba, 11, 277-299

Ancestral cuit, 188 ff, 192 ff, 224 f, 233 258

Ashanti, 54

Azande, ix, 2, 5, 11, 22, 29 n, 125, 131, 173

Baraguyu, 57, 75, 91 n

Bestiality, 67, 103, 121

Bohannan, P. J., 42 n, 198 n, 278

Cannibalism, 6 f, 14, 64 f, 68, 129, 197, 214, 226, 281, 290, 292 f

Cewa, 11, 17 f, 124 ff, 131

Chiefship, 3, 13, 19, 46 f, 59, 74, 76, 92 f, 106, 132, 144 ff, 181 ff, 215, 258

Christianity, 25, 28, 60, 74, 77, 87, 91 f 95, 173, 218 f, 223, 230, 274 f

Chwezi, 40, 54

Clanship, 58 f, 74, 76, 80, 129, 131, 157 ff, 222

Colson, E., 17

Confessions, 79, 153 f, 230; see also

Ordeals

Control of wizardry, 21 f, 120, 123 ff, 139 f, 231 ff, 291

Counter-wizardry, 73, 84, 130, 200, 233, 251

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Cover
Original Title Page
Original Copyright
Table of Content
Foreword
INTRODUCTION
SORCERY IN BUNYORO
WITCHCRAFT IN UKAGURU
MANDARI WITCHCRAFT
TECHNIQUES OF SORCERY CONTROL IN CENTRAL AFRICA
SOME STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF MBUGWE WITCHCRAFT
NANDI WITCHCRAFT
WITCHCRAFT IN BUGISU
WITCHCRAFT AND SORCERY IN A GUSII COMMUNITY
WITCHCRAFT AND SORCERY IN LUGBARA
THE ENEMY WITHIN: AMBA WITCHCRAFT AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
INDEX