Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa
Title | Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Ashforth |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2005-01-15 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9780226029733 |
Large numbers of people in Soweto & other parts of South Africa live in fear of witchcraft, presenting complex & unique problems for the government. Adam Ashforth explores the challenge of occult violence & the spiritual insecurity that it engenders to democratic rule in South Africa.
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa
Title | Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Ashforth |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2005-01-15 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 0226029743 |
Large numbers of people in Soweto & other parts of South Africa live in fear of witchcraft, presenting complex & unique problems for the government. Adam Ashforth explores the challenge of occult violence & the spiritual insecurity that it engenders to democratic rule in South Africa.
Witchcraft, Violence and Democracy in the New South Africa
Title | Witchcraft, Violence and Democracy in the New South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Ashforth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Witchcraft |
ISBN |
Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa
Title | Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2020-12-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004436421 |
In Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang unpack the contentious South African government’s post-apartheid policy framework of the ‘‘return to tradition policy’’. The conjuncture between deep sociopolitical crises, witchcraft, the ravaging HIV/AIDS pandemic and the government’s initial reluctance to adopt antiretroviral therapy turned away desperate HIV/AIDS patients to traditional healers. Drawing on historical sources, policy documents and ethnographic interviews, Pemunta and Tabenyang convincingly demonstrate that despite biomedical hegemony, patients and members of their therapy-seeking group often shuttle between modern and traditional medicine, thereby making both systems of healthcare complementary rather than alternatives. They draw the attention of policy-makers to the need to be aware of ‘‘subaltern health narratives’’ in designing health policy.
Madumo, a Man Bewitched
Title | Madumo, a Man Bewitched PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Ashforth |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2005-07-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780226029726 |
In a true story of a man bewitched, set against the turbulent backdrop of contemporary Soweto, Ashforth shows that witchcraft is not simply superstition but a complex response to spiritual insecurity in a troubling time of political and economic upheaval.
Witchcraft Violence and the Law in South Africa
Title | Witchcraft Violence and the Law in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | John Hund |
Publisher | Spotlight Poets |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Witchcraft accusations and violence are generating new forms of popular 'justice' that threaten to destabilize the state's administration of justice. What is to be done?
Democracy Compromised
Title | Democracy Compromised PDF eBook |
Author | Lungisile Ntsebeza |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2005-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9047407903 |
This book argues that the promulgation of the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework and Communal Land Rights Acts runs the risk of compromising South Africa's democracy. The acts establish traditional councils with land administration powers. These structures are dominated by unelected members.