Acknowledgements
Notes on terminology
1. Introduction: Exploring Witchcraft, Power and Politics
2. Society, Cosmology and the Making of Witchcraft: Continuity and
Change in the History of Green
Valley, 1864-1995
3. Witches of the Lowveld and Their Familiars: Conceptions of
Duality, Power and Desire
4. Witchcraft and Whites: Further Notes on the Symbolic
Constitution of Occult Power
5. Witches, Cognates, Affines and Neighbours: The Distribution of
Witchcraft Accusations, 1960-1995
6. ‘A Witch Has No Horn’: Social Tensions in the Subjective Reality
of Witchcraft
7. Witch-Hunting and Political Legitimacy: Chiefs, Comrades and the
Elimination of Evil, 1930-1990
8. The ANC's Dilemma: The Symbolic Politics of Four Witch-Hunts in
the 1990s
9. Conclusions: Witchcraft and the Postcolonial State
Appendices
Notes
References
Index
Isak Niehaus is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology
and Archaeology, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Eliazaar Mohlala is the joint author of Witchcraft, Power and
Politics (Pluto, 2001).
Kally Shokaneo is the joint author of Witchcraft, Power and
Politics (Pluto, 2001).
'Profound and often painful insights into the transformations that
have taken place in South Africa'
*Times Literary Supplement*
'Demonstrates that the recent changes in witchcraft beliefs and
persecutions are closely related to those conditions which have
exacerbated the misery and poverty of rural Africans in this
region'
*Anthrops - International review of anthropology and
linguistics.*
'An important contribution to the study of contemporary witchcraft
in South America.'
*Anthropology in Action*
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