Moral power : the magic of witchcraft / Koen Stroeken

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 thr...

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Main Author: Stroeken, Koen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2010
Series:Epistemologies of healing ; v. 9.
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