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Contemporary Witch-hunting in Gusii, Southwestern Kenya
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Justus Mozart H'Achachi Ogembo
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher:

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This book describes a series of witch-killings that has been underway in Gusii, Southwestern Kenya, since 1992. It integrates the testimony of participants of a
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
Language: en
Pages: 120
Authors: Silvia Federici
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-01 - Publisher: PM Press

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We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongsid
Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900–1955
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Katherine Luongo
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in w
Who Do the Ngimurok Say That They Are?
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Kevin P. Lines
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-12 - Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

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How do missiologists describe the cosmologies of those that Christianity encounters around the world? Our descriptions often end up filtered through our own Wes
Mortgaging the Ancestors
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Parker Shipton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-06 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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This title looks briefly at European and North American theories on private property and the mortgage, then shows how these theories have played out as attempte