In Witch-bound Africa
Author | : Frank Hulme Melland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
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Author | : Frank Hulme Melland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : FRANK HULME. MELLAND |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 9781033084007 |
Author | : Frank Hulme Melland |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2017-07-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780282532666 |
Excerpt from In Witch-Bound Africa: An Account of the Primitive Kaonde Tribe and Their Beliefs I am grateful for the permission given me to use two photographs taken by my friends. The rest are all my own. For the map I owe my thanks to the Chief Surveyor, Livingstone, who has drawn it from the sub district ma 5. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Frank Hulme Melland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
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Author | : Frank Hulme MELLAND |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Frank Hulme MELLAND |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1923 |
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Author | : Karen Palmer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2010-10-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1439143129 |
As I attempted to digest stories of spiritual cannibalism, of curses that could cost a student her eyesight or ignite the pages of the books she read, I knew I was not alone in my skepticism. And yet, when I caught sight of the waving arms of an industrious scarecrow, the hair on the back of my neck would stand on end. It was most palpable at night, this creepy feeling, when the moon stayed low to the horizon and the dust kicked up in the breeze, reaching out and pulling back with ghostly fingers. There was something to this place that could be felt but not seen. With these words, Karen Palmer takes us inside one of West Africa’s witch camps, where hundreds of banished women struggle to survive under the watchful eye of a powerful wizard. Palmer arrived at the Gambaga witch camp with an outsider’s sense of outrage, believing it was little more than a dumping ground for difficult women. Soon, however, she encountered stories she could not explain: a woman who confessed she’d attacked a girl given to her as a sacrifice; another one desperately trying to rid herself of the witchcraft she believed helped her kill dozens of people. In Spellbound, Palmer brilliantly recounts the kaleidoscope of experiences that greeted her in the remote witch camps of northern Ghana, where more than 3,000 exiled women and men live in extreme poverty, many sentenced in a ceremony hinging on the death throes of a sacrificed chicken. As she ventured deeper into Ghana’s grasslands, Palmer found herself swinging between belief and disbelief. She was shown books that caught on fire for no reason and met diviners who accurately predicted the future. From the schoolteacher who believed Africa should use the power of its witches to gain wealth and prestige to the social worker who championed the rights of accused witches but also took his wife to a witch doctor, Palmer takes readers deep inside a shadowy layer of rural African society. As the sheen of the exotic wore off, Palmer saw the camp for what it was: a hidden colony of women forced to rely on food scraps from the weekly market. She witnessed the way witchcraft preyed on people’s fears and resentments. Witchcraft could be a comfort in times of distress, a way of explaining a crippling drought or the inexplicable loss of a child. It was a means of predicting the unpredictable and controlling the uncontrollable. But witchcraft was also a tool for social control. In this vivid, startling work of first-person reportage, Palmer sheds light on the plight of women in a rarely seen corner of the world.
Author | : Irving I. Zaretsky |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2019-06-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1000517527 |
Originally published in 1978 Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America is an incredibly diverse and comprehensive bibliography on published works containing ethnographic data on, and analysis of, spirit possession and spirit mediumship in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in some Afro-American communities in the Western Hemisphere. The sources on Western Afro-American communities were chosen to shed light on the African continent and the Americas. The bibliography, while not exhaustive, provides extensive research on the area of research in spiritualism in Africa and Afro-America. The bibliography also provides unique sources on spirit cults, ritual or ethnic groups and will be of especial interest to researchers. Although published in the late 70s, this book will still provide an incredibly useful research tool for academics in the area of religion, with a focus on spiritualism and non-western religions.
Author | : J. R. Crawford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2018-08-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351009222 |
Originally published in 1967, this book is a study of witchcraft and sorcery among the Shona, Ndebele and Kalanga peoples of Zimbabwe. It analyses in their social context verbatim evidence and confessions from a comprehensive series of judicial records. It provides the first systematic demonstration of the importance and the exstent to which such sources can be used to make a detailed analysis of the character and range of beliefs and motives. The main emphasis is on witchcraft and sorcery beliefs, the nature of accusations, confessions and divination, btoh traditional and as practised by members of the Pentecostal Church.
Author | : David Hatcher Childress |
Publisher | : Adventures Unlimited Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780932813060 |
Join Childress as he discovers forbidden cities in the Empty Quarter of Arabia, 'Atlantean' ruins in Egypt and the Kalahari desert; a mysterious, ancient empire in the Sahara; and more. This is an extraordinary life on the road: across war torn countries Childress searches for King Solomon's Mines, living dinosaurs, the Ark of the Covenant and the solutions to the fantastic mysteries of the past.