Madumo, a Man Bewitched

Informationen zum Autor Adam Ashforth is visiting associate professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Zusammenfassung Adam Ashforth! an Australian who has spent many years in Soweto! finds his longtime friend Madumo in dire circumstances: his family has accused him of using witchcraft to kill his mother and has thrown him out on the street. Convinced that his life is cursed! Madumo seeks help among Soweto's bewildering array of healers and prophets.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Ashforth, Ashforth Adam
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.2005
• EAN: 9780226029726
• ISBN: 978-0-226-02972-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biografien: allgemein, Südafrika, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Witchcraft, RELIGION / Wicca, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Republic of South Africa, Social and cultural anthropology, Biography: philosophy and social sciences