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

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AA - Filosofie a náboženství

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Religio: revue pro religionistiku

ISSN

1210-3640

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

24

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

33

Strana od-do

19-51

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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