Koen Stroeken

Moral Power

The Magic of Witchcraft

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Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patient's recovery. Healers turn the table on the witch through rituals showing that the community and the ancestral spirits side with the victim. In contrast to biomedicine, their magic and divination introduce moral values that assess the state of the system and that remove the obstacles to what is taken as key: self-healing. The implied 'sensory shifts' and therapeutic effectiveness have largely eluded the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84545-849-2
EAN: 9781845458492
Produktnummer: 20450096
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 284 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'287 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 9

Über den Autor

Koen Stroeken is an associate professor of Africanist anthropology at Ghent University. He studies the moral cosmologies underlying medicine and social media.