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Bewitching Development (Paperback)
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Bewitching Development (Paperback)
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These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For
critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies
as latter day imperialism, such plans too closely reflect their
roots in colonial rule and neoliberal economics. But proponents of
this pessimistic view often ignore how significant this concept has
become for Africans themselves. In "Bewitching Development," James
Howard Smith presents a close ethnographic account of how people in
the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of
development thought and practice, focusing on the complex ways that
development connects with changing understandings of
witchcraft.
Similar to magic, development's promise of a better world elicits
both hope and suspicion from Wataita. Smith shows that the
unforeseen changes wrought by development--greater wealth for some,
dashed hopes for many more--foster moral debates that Taita people
express in occult terms. By carefully chronicling the beliefs and
actions of this diverse community--from frustrated youths to
nostalgic seniors, duplicitous preachers to thought-provoking witch
doctors--"Bewitching" "Development" vividly depicts the social life
of formerly foreign ideas and practices in postcolonial Africa.
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