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William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in African cultural and social contexts. These studies of evil entanglements take local and national histories and identities into account, including state politics and civil war, religious practices, Islam, gender, and modernity. ** Review This volume will be widely welcomed as dovetailing with a range of recent treatments, notably by Peter Geschiere and Richard Werbner, of how practical wisdom may consist of identifying apparently familiar others as uncanny threats, or alternately of recognizing distortions of the familiar within oneself. ( Journal of African History ) The volume's richly detailed case studies build bridges between the anthropology of religion and current anthropological theories of morality, ethics, and social suffering. ( American Ethnologist ) This timely book adds to knowle

Author

William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, Jennie E. Burnet, Linda van de Kamp, Léocadie Ekoué, David Parkin

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253017437

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Anthropology