Adam Ashforth. Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa.(Book...

Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft;  December 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......modernization paradigms, wherein witchcraft beliefs served mainly as a measure of...the significance of contemporary witchcraft beliefs has been interpreted alternately...meaning and uses of witchcraft in contemporary Africa can be best understood by posing...well the emerging urban ...

Toyin Falola (ed.), Contemporary Africa, vol. 5.(Book review)

Africa;  September 22, 2006 ;     696 words ......FALOLA (ed.), Africa, Volume V: contemporary Africa. Durham: Carolina Academic Press...analytical tools honed in the West. Contemporary Africa offers an in-depth analysis of the...evolution of the labour force in contemporary Africa, while there are two dedicated to...

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History Today;  July 1, 1998 ;     550 words ......understanding of contemporary concerns. Witchcraft beliefs cannot be profitably abstracted from...shifts that interacted with a rise in witchcraft beliefs, only to become weaker in the early...humanism, and explains its potency. With witchcraft beliefs, intellectuals were indicating ...

Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legend of Late...

The Nation;  December 16, 1996 ;     700+ words ......and institutions of the bifurcated state reproduced in contemporary Africa. Although directed to those engaged in African politics...The persistence of such distinctions and divisions in contemporary Africa is often mistaken as a revival of parochialisms unique...

African Leaders Urged to Fight Against Witchcraft

Xinhua News Agency;  December 29, 2001 ;     325 words ......noted that it was possible to educate the poor to abandon witchcraft beliefs, but the problem was being made complex becauseof involvement...Kiswahili. According to media reports, incidents related to witchcraft beliefs in Tanzania are rampant, ranging from killings associated...

Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in...

African Studies Review;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Gibson, eds. Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2002. xxii...particular to Africa. Clearly, any new work that deals with contemporary Africa must look to the past, not only to understand the continent...

Africa Conflict, Peace and Governance Monitor, 2005

African Research & Documentation;  April 1, 2007 ;     589 words ......with a declared interest in the political scenario of contemporary Africa should have on its shelves. To my mind, this new annual...percipient and reliable interpreters of "war and peace" in contemporary Africa. Their identity and current positions held are listed...

REVIEW; "MACBETH"; Tragedy grabs audience with horror and beauty; Out of...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  September 26, 2005 ;     544 words ......of the setting to a Scotland that looks like parts of contemporary Africa, the British company has delivered a Macbeth for the ages...first staged in 1606, has many parallels to parts of contemporary Africa. There is a weft of superstitious beliefs in both the...

260 Die of Witchcraft Beliefs in Tanzania

Xinhua English Newswire;  September 30, 1997 ;     106 words ...Two hundred and sixty elderly people in Mwanza region, northwest Tanzania, were killed over witchcraft beliefs in the past five years, the local press reported today. Of the dead, 195 were women and 65 were men, the report quoted Mwanza regional...

Contemporary African art comes to St. Louis.(St. Louis)(Brief Article)

Art Business News;  October 1, 2003 ;     263 words ......Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad presents new work by prominent contemporary African...European cultures. SHOW FACTS A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad Through Jan. 3 The Contemporary Art Museum, St...

Undermining "Primitive"

Pittsburgh City Paper;  September 29, 2004 ;     618 words ......that suggested the modern, international realities of contemporary Africa -- was dismissed as "inauthentic" and thus unmarketable...its continued aftereffects. A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, now at Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Gallery...

A&T FACULTY MEMBER TO BE A FEATURED ARTIST IN ANCIENT AND CONTEMPORARY...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 18, 2007 ;     164 words ......Middle Passage exhibition at the Apex Museum in Atlanta, Ga. Perry's video installation will be included in the Ancient and Contemporary Africa Civilization exhibit. The exhibition will be part of the attraction for the National Black Arts Festival and will be held...

Conflict in Contemporary Africa

Journal of Political and Military Sociology;  July 1, 2003 ;     481 words ...Conflict in Contemporary Africa, ed. by P. Godfrey Okoth and Bethwell A. Ogot. Nairobi, Kenya: Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, 2000. 268 pp. $34.95 (paper). Dist. by...

The Crime of Crimes: Demonology and Politics in France 1560-1620

The Catholic Historical Review;  October 1, 2000 ;     584 words ......judges of the courts, who generally did not harbor extreme witchcraft beliefs, prevented them from doing so. The third and most important...the humanist Michel de Montaigne, who was skeptical of witchcraft beliefs, would be included among this group, but it is less obvious...

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Pacific Affairs;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Sturzenhofecker demonstrates, for example, that an escalation of witchcraft beliefs among the Duna is tied to men's growing anxiety concerning...description of Duna marriage practices and her account of how witchcraft beliefs have been transformed in the wake of the colonial encounter...