Witchcraft, Power and Politics: Exploring the Occult in the South African Lowveld

by Kally Shokaneo, Eliazaar Mohlala, Isak Niehaus, et al.

Book Overview

This is an extraordinary account of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the modern world. A powerful ethnographic study of witch-hunting in 1980s South Africa - a period of rapid social change - this book demonstrates the extent to which witchcraft must be seen, not as a residue of 'traditional' culture but as part of a complex social drama which is deeply embedded in contemporary political and economic processes. Isak Niehaus provides the context for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745315585
• ISBN13: 9780745315584
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"