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9781846159961
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (vii, 215 pages)
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DDC:
394.9096761
Keywords:
Uganda Martyrs Guild
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Katholische Kirche
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Religion
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Cannibalism / Uganda / Toro
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Cannibalism / Religious aspects / catholic church
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Witch hunting / Uganda / Toro
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Hexenverfolgung
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Kannibalismus
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Ethnologe
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Toro
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Uganda
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Uganda
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Toro
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Kannibalismus
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Katholische Kirche
;
Ethnologe
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Hexenverfolgung
Abstract:
Heike Behrend is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany, the author of 'Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits' [James Currey, 1999], and co-editor of 'Spirit Possession, Modernity and Power in Africa' [James Currey, 1999]
Description / Table of Contents:
Part One: Eating/Being Eaten. 1. 'Eating the King': Fragments of a History of Tooro -- 2. Ethnography of Eating: Mediating Food and Power -- 3. 'Eating God': Western Images of the Cannibal and the Eucharist -- 4. Eating to Destroy: Cannibals and Witches in Tooro -- Part Two: Terror and Healing in Tooro. 5. Crisis and the Rise of Occult Powers -- 6. The Catholic Church and Religious Pluralism in Tooro -- 7. The Uganda Martyrs Guild -- 8. The Guild's Crusades -- Part Three: The Cannibal in Colonial Missionary Encounters. 9. The Making of a Christian King and 'Pagan' Persecutions -- 10. Christian Catechists and Missionaries in Tooro -- 11. Missionaries, the Eucharist and Cannibals in Tooro -- 12. Resurrecting Cannibals -- 13. Medical Spectacles of Resurrection and Colonial Mirroring
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