Adam Ashforth, Witchcraft, Violence and Democracy in South Africa
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Adam Ashforth has written one of the recent political ethnographies I most admire. His Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa draws on a total of about three years’ residence during the 1990s in Soweto (South West Township), an Apartheid-built black suburb of Johannesburg, plus subsequent visits to his adopted family and friends there. Earlier, Ashforth wrote an impressive historic...
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عنوان ژورنال: L'Homme
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0439-4216,1953-8103
DOI: 10.4000/lhomme.2443