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The Modernity of Witchcraft

Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa

by Peter Geschiere

Based on fieldwork in Cameroon, this influential study argues that witchcraft discourse in Africa is not a survival of tradition but a flexible language for talking about power, wealth and inequality in modern states. It reshaped the anthropology of witchcraft.

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