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Kupilikula - Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique (Hardcover, New)
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Kupilikula - Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique (Hardcover, New)
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On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to
feed on their victims, sometimes "making" lions or transforming
into lions to literally devour their flesh. When the ruling FRELIMO
party subscribed to socialism, it condemned sorcery beliefs and
countersorcery practices as false consciousness, but since
undertaking neoliberal reform, the party--still in power after
three electoral cycles--has "tolerated tradition," leaving
villagers to interpret and engage with events in the idiom of
sorcery. Now when the lions prowl plateau villages, suspected
sorcerers are often lynched.
In this historical ethnography of sorcery, Harry G. West draws on a
decade of fieldwork and combines the perspectives of anthropology
and political science to reveal how Muedans expect responsible
authorities to monitor the invisible realm of sorcery and to
overturn or, as Muedans call it, "kuplikula" sorcerers' destructive
attacks by practicing a constructive form of countersorcery
themselves. "Kupilikula "argues that, where neoliberal policies
have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity,
Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and
sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a
world transformed.
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