{"product_id":"evil-in-africa-encounters-with-the-everyday-hardback-9780253017437","title":"Evil in Africa; Encounters with the Everyday (Hardback) 9780253017437","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEvil in Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEncounters with the Everyday\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam C. Olsen (Edited by), Walter E. A. van Beek (Edited by), Jennie E. Burnet (Contributions by), Linda van de Kamp (Contributions by), Léocadie Ekoué (Contributions by), Judy Rosenthal (Contributions by), Dorothy L. Hodgson (Contributions by), Diane Ciekawy (Contributions by), Ulrika Trovalla (Contributions by), Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Contributions by), Roy Martin Dilley (Contributions by), Kjersti Larsen (Contributions by), René Joseph Devisch (Contributions by), Susan J. Rasmussen (Contributions by), Wyatt MacGaffey (Contributions by), David Parkin (Foreword by), Sónia Silva (Contributions by), Susan Reynolds Whyte (Contributions by), Lotte Meinert (Contributions by), Jok Madut Jok (Contributions by), Julaina A. Obika (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253017437\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 August 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e402 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.689 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The volume's richly detailed case studies build bridges between the anthropology of religion and current anthropological theories of morality, ethics, and social suffering.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Ethnologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This volume will be widely welcomed as dovetailing with a range of recent treatments, notably by Peter Geschiere and Richard Werbner, of how practical wisdom may consist of identifying apparently familiar others as uncanny threats, or alternately of recognizing distortions of the familiar within oneself.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of African History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This timely book adds to knowledge in the area of African religions. . . . [T]he book is valuable in highlighting how complex evil is as expressed and experienced in Africa.\"—\u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"—Isak Niehaus, co-author of Witchcraft, Power and Politics: Exploring the Occult in the South African Lowveld\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: African Notions of Evil: The Chimera of Justice \u003cbr\u003e Walter E.A. van Beek and William C. Olsen \u003cbr\u003e Part I. Evil and the State\/War \u003cbr\u003e 1. Political Evil: Witchcraft from the Perspective of the Bewitched \u003cbr\u003e Sónia Silva \u003cbr\u003e 2. Untying Wrongs in Northern Uganda \u003cbr\u003e Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Evil of Insecurity in South Sudan: Violence and Impunity in Africa's Newest State \u003cbr\u003e Jok Madut Jok \u003cbr\u003e 4. Genocide, Evil and Human Agency: The Concept of Evil in Rwandan Explanations of the 1994 Genocide \u003cbr\u003e Jennie E. Burnet \u003cbr\u003e 5. Politics and Cosmographic Anxiety: Kongo and Dagbon Compared \u003cbr\u003e Wyatt MacGaffey \u003cbr\u003e Part II. Evil and Religion \u003cbr\u003e 6. Ambivalence and the Work of the Negative Among the Yaka \u003cbr\u003e René Devisch \u003cbr\u003e 7. Azé and the Incommensurable \u003cbr\u003e Léocadie Ekoué with Judy Rosenthal \u003cbr\u003e 8. Evil and the Art of Revenge in the Mandara Mountains \u003cbr\u003e Walter E.A. van Beek \u003cbr\u003e 9. Distinctions in the Imagination of Harm in Contemporary Mijikenda Thought: The Existential Challenge of Majini \u003cbr\u003e Diane Ciekawy \u003cbr\u003e 10. Haunted by Absent Others: Movements of Evil in a Nigerian City \u003cbr\u003e Ulrika Trovalla \u003cbr\u003e 11. Attributions of Evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal \u003cbr\u003e Roy Dilley \u003cbr\u003e 12. Reflections regarding Good and Evil: The Complexity of Words in Zanzibar \u003cbr\u003e Kjersti Larsen \u003cbr\u003e 13. Constructing Moral Personhood: The Moral Test in Tuareg Sociability as a Commentary on Honor and Dishonor \u003cbr\u003e Susan J. Rasmussen \u003cbr\u003e 14. The Gender of Evil: Maasai Experiences and Expressions \u003cbr\u003e Dorothy L. Hodgson \u003cbr\u003e Part III. Evil and Modernity \u003cbr\u003e 15. Neo-Cannibalism, Military Bio-Politics, and the Problem of Human Evil \u003cbr\u003e Nancy Scheper-Hughes \u003cbr\u003e 16. Theft and Evil in Asante \u003cbr\u003e William C. Olsen \u003cbr\u003e 17. Sorcery after Socialism: Liberalization and Anti Witchcraft Practices in Southern Tanzania \u003cbr\u003e Maia Green \u003cbr\u003e 18. Transatlantic Pentecostal Demons in Maputo \u003cbr\u003e Linda van de Kamp \u003cbr\u003e 19. The Meaning of \"Apartheid\" and the Epistemology of Evil\u003cbr\u003e  Adam Ashforth\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors and Affiliations \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523958534424,"sku":"9780253017437","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/evil-in-africa-encounters-with-the-everyday-hardback-9780253017437","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}