Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in Comparison

by Peter Geschiere

Book Overview

In Dante's Inferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust, Peter Geschiere masterfully sketches it as a central ember at the core of human relationships, one brutally revealed in the practice of witchcraft. Examining witchcraft in its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022604761X
• ISBN13: 9780226047614
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"