Resurrecting Cannibals

The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda

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Behrend, Heike

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222 Seiten

Englisch

Boydell & Brewererschienen am20.10.2011

This is the first ethnography of the Uganda Martyrs Guild [UMG], a lay movement of the Catholic Church, and its organized witch-hunts in the kingdom of Tooro, Western Uganda.mehr

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KlappentextThis is the first ethnography of the Uganda Martyrs Guild [UMG], a lay movement of the Catholic Church, and its organized witch-hunts in the kingdom of Tooro, Western Uganda.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-84701-039-1

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

FormatGenäht

Verlag

Boydell & Brewer

Erscheinungsjahr2011

Erscheinungsdatum20.10.2011

Seiten222 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 142 mm, Höhe 220 mm, Dicke 21 mm

Gewicht486 g

Artikel-Nr.12923913

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I EATING/BEING EATEN'Eating the King': Fragments of a History of Tooro KingshipEthnography of Eating: Mediating Food and Power'Eating God': Western Images of the Cannibal PART II TERROR AND HEALING IN TOOROCrisis and the Rise of Occult ForcesWitches and Cannibals in TooroThe Catholic Church and Religious Pluralism in TooroThe Uganda Martyrs GuildThe Guild's Crusades PART III THE CANNIBAL IN COLONIAL MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERSThe Making of a Christian King and 'Pagan' PersecutionsChristian Catechists and Missionaries in TooroMissionaries, the Eucharist and Cannibals in TooroResurrecting CannibalsMedical Spectacles of Resurrection and Colonial Mirroringmehr

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A must read for all interested in Africa. AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLYmehr