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modernity ofwitchcraft1 CONSTRUCTModernity of witchcraftGESCHIERE · ANTHROPOLOGY OF

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Anthropology of religion

the argument by Geschiere that witchcraft discourse in postcolonial Africa is not a survival of the past but a way of speaking about new wealth, power and inequality.

In anthropology of religion, modernity of witchcraft refers to the argument by Geschiere that witchcraft discourse in postcolonial Africa is not a survival of the past but a way of speaking about new wealth, power and inequality. This meaning comes from Geschiere (1997) in The modernity of witchcraft.[1]

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  1. Geschiere, P. (1997). The modernity of witchcraft. University Press of Virginia. ISBN 9780813917030

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