NEIGHBORS, STRANGERS, WITCHES, AND CULTURE-HEROES by Susan Rasmussen
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| Management number | 47915504 | Release Date | 2026/02/03 | List Price | US$24.51 | Model Number | 47915504 | ||
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AUTHOR: Susan Rasmussen
BOOK FORMAT: Paperback
PAGE COUNT: 138 Pages
This book examines alleged “superhuman” powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies.
It discusses their ritual and social roles, mythical histories, symbols surrounding their art, and the changing relationships between these specialists and their patrons. Needed but also feared, these smith/artisans work in traditionally hereditary occupations and in stratified but negotiable relationships with their rural patron families.
Many of them now also work for new customers in an expanding market economy, which is still characterized by personal, face-to-face interactions. Rasmussen maintains that a framework integrating anthropological theories of witchcraft, alterity, symbolism, and power is fundamental to understanding local accusations and tensions in these relationships.
She also argues that it is critical to deconstruct and disentangle guilt, blame, and envy.
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| Condition | Like new |
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