Encounters with witchcraft (Record no. 51308)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781461907640 (electronic bk.) |
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| International Standard Book Number | 1461907640 (electronic bk.) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781438443584 |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781438443577 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)795909854 |
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| System control number | 458726 |
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| Classification number | BF1584.A53 |
| Item number | M55 2012eb |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | OCC |
| Subject category code subdivision | 028000 |
| Source | bisacsh |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | OCC |
| Subject category code subdivision | 026000 |
| Source | bisacsh |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 133.4/30967 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) | |
| Holding library | N$TA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Miller, Norman N., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1933- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Encounters with witchcraft |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | field notes from Africa / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Norman N. Miller. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Albany : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | State University of New York Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (viii, 232 p.) : |
| Other physical details | ill., maps. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-217) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Prologue: first encounter -- The colonial days -- An archeologist's view of witchcraft -- Ancient spirit paintings -- Lion-men and colonial witch trials -- Angry man with a cross-bow -- Witchcraft and the Congo pygmies -- Crocodile bile and the poison principle -- Living with witches -- The witchcraft trial of Mohammadi -- The woman who poisoned a chief -- The issue of death by suggestion -- Witchcraft symbols in western Tanzania -- Reflections on Mohammadi -- Through African eyes: the arts -- The gift of an execution mask -- Seeing witchcraft images in nature -- The witch's toolkit: implements and artifacts -- Guns, throwing knives and power symbols -- Spirit art and the ideas of an African chief -- Witch-hunters and witch-cleansers -- Secrets of a professional witch hunter -- Using witch hunters for political coercion -- A famous witch-cleanser in Malawi -- Faith healers, snake handlers, herbalists -- Kajiwe (little stone), Kenyan witch-hunter -- Witchcraft and violence -- Meeting Idi Amin in Uganda -- State-sponsored terror with witchcraft skin gangs and secret societies on trial: witchcraft court cases -- A rough map of witchcraft in eastern Africa -- The spirit wars -- How prophet movements use witchcraft healing -- The sick by the sea -- "Evil eye" among desert people -- Witchcraft violence in an African Christian church -- Missionary zeal: African spirits versus Christian spirits -- Witchcraft and juju economics -- Smuggling of witchcraft poisons and products -- Long distance trade in protective medicines -- The healer's trade: witchcraft as a diagnosis -- Commercialization and urbanization of witchcraft -- Spirit art, devil art and modern art for profit -- Witch beliefs as barriers to economic development -- Political witchcraft -- Witchcraft threats and mafia-like politics -- The Tanzanian holocaust: the Sungusungu killings -- Meeting Kenya's President Moi -- Devil cults in Nairobi: alleged satanic practices -- The use of witchcraft in Uganda's |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Lord's Resistance Army -- Rebellion in Kenya: the rise of mungiki -- Lessons learned -- "Look, there is no 'paranormal'" -- Lessons from a little boy -- How witchcraft really works: an African view -- Death by suggestion: a final confession -- Killing elders as witches, the rise of senecide -- Mohammadi's shadow -- Return to my village -- Dramatic changes over the years -- Why witches are never mentioned -- The truth about Mohammadi's life -- The mystery resolved -- Epilogue: the future of witchcraft. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Witchcraft |
| General subdivision | Social aspects |
| Geographic subdivision | Africa, Sub-Saharan. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Witchcraft & Wicca |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Miller, Norman N., 1933- |
| Title | Encounters with witchcraft. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Albany : State University of New York Press, 2012 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781438443584 |
| Record control number | (DLC) 2011042635 |
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| Materials specified | EBSCOhost |
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| 910 ## - USER-OPTION DATA (OCLC) | |
| User-option data | cpp1723AUTO |
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