The modern forms of witchcraft in Zambia. The analysis of local witchcraft narratives in urban settings of Lusaka

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/135690" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/135690</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The modern forms of witchcraft in Zambia. The analysis of local witchcraft narratives in urban settings of Lusaka

Original language description

This article, based on data gathered during long-term ethnographic fieldwork, deals with modern forms of witchcraft in Lusaka, Zambia. The interpretation of witchcraft narratives grounded in analyses of multi-episodic medical cases builds on the theoretical assumptions of scholars studying contemporary forms of witchcraft in connection with the crises of modernity, ongoing globalisation, capitalism, and the process of the socio-political and economic transformations of modern African societies. This article does not tackle witchcraft in Lusaka only in the narrow sense as the aetiology of an individual illness, but on a more general level as a specific kind of worldview, a local discourse explaining the presence of evil, misfortune, and inequalities in the world. The article attempts to answer the question of what kind of socio-economic problems the imagery of current urban witchcraft in Lusaka reflects, and how the local witchcraft discourse is socially and culturally constructed in specific situations and events.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AA - Philosophy and religion

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Religio: revue pro religionistiku

ISSN

1210-3640

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

33

Pages from-to

19-51

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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