Witchcraft, Power and Politics: Exploring the Occult in the South African Lowveld.(Book Review)

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics | July 1, 2002| | Copyright

By Isak Niehaus, with Eliazaar Mohlala and Kally Shokane (Cape Town: David Philip; London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2001, pp.xx + 246, 45 [pounds sterling] hb; 15.99 [pounds sterling] pb).

Witchcraft is an age-old phenomenon associated with humans within a social context and their inclination to ascribe misfortune to hostile powers. It may be defined as the unauthorised and malevolent use of supposed supernatural powers to the advantage of the practitioner and/or to the disadvantage of others. As such witchcraft belongs to the realm of the supernatural--those ...

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