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Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900-1955 (Paperback)
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Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900-1955 (Paperback)
Series: African Studies
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Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between
state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes
provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law
and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses
the emergence of imperial networks of knowledge about witchcraft.
She then demonstrates how colonial concerns about witchcraft
produced an elaborate body of jurisprudence about capital crimes.
The book analyzes the legal wrangling that produced the Witchcraft
Ordinances in the 1910s, the birth of an anthro-administrative
complex surrounding witchcraft in the 1920s, the hotly contested
Wakamba Witch Trials of the 1930s, the explosive growth of legal
opinion on witch-murder in the 1940s, and the unprecedented
state-sponsored cleansings of witches and Mau Mau adherents during
the 1950s. A work of anthropological history, this book develops an
ethnography of Kamba witchcraft or uoi.
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