Contents
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTES ON TERMINOLOGY
ACRONYMS
Maps
1 INTRODUCTION: EXPLORING WITCHCRAFT, POWER AND POLITICS
2 SOCIETY, COSMOLOGY AND THE MAKING OF WITCHCRAFT: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE HISTORY OF GREEN VAL
3 WITCHES OF THE LOWVELD AND THEIR FAMILIARS: CONCEPTIONS OF DUALITY, POWER AND DESIRE
4 WITCHCRAFT AND WHITES: FURTHER NOTES ON THE SYMBOLIC CONSTITUTION OF OCCULT POWER
5 WITCHES, COGNATES, AFFINES AND NEIGHBOURS: THE CHANGING DISTRIBUTION OF WITCHCRAFT ACCUSATIONS
6 'A WITCH HAS NO HORN' : SOCIAL TENSIONS IN THE SUBJECTIVE REALITY OF WITCHCRAFT
7 WITCH-HUNTING AND POLITICAL LEGITIMACY: CHIEFS, COMRADES AND THE ELIMINATION OF EVIL, 1930-1989
8 THE ANC'S DILEMMA: THE SYMBOLIC POLITICS OF FOUR WITCH-HUNTS IN THE 1990s
9 CONCLUSION: WITCHCRAFT AND THE POSTCOLONIAL STAT
APPENDICES
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