Evil in Africa - Encounters with the Everyday (Hardcover)

William C Olsen, Walter E.A. van Beek; Contributions by Jennie E Burnet, Linda van de Kamp, Leocadie Ekoue, Judy Rosenthal, Dorothy L. Hodgson, Diane Ciekawy, Ulrika Trovalla, Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in African cultural and social contexts. These studies of evil entanglements take local and national histories and identities into account, including state politics and civil war, religious practices, Islam, gender, and modernity.

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Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2015
First published:	2015
Editors:	William C Olsen • Walter E.A. van Beek
Contributors:	Jennie E Burnet • Linda van de Kamp • Leocadie Ekoue • Judy Rosenthal • Dorothy L. Hodgson • Diane Ciekawy • Ulrika Trovalla • Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	402
ISBN-13:	978-0-253-01743-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General Promotions
LSN:	0-253-01743-2
Barcode:	9780253017437