Bewitching Development - Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Development in Neoliberal Kenya

Informationen zum Autor James Howard Smith is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California! Davis. Klappentext Presents an account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of development thought and practice! focusing on the complex ways that development connects with changing understandings of witchcraft. Zusammenfassung Presents an account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of development thought and practice! focusing on the complex ways that development connects with changing understandings of witchcraft.

Product details

• Authors: James Howard Smith, Smith James Howard
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9780226764580
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76458-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Chicago Studies in Practices o; Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning; Chicago Studies in the Practices of Meaning (CHUP)
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Witchcraft, RELIGION / Wicca, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Kenya, Physical anthropology, Witchcraft / Witches