Bewitching Development

Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Development in Neoliberal Kenya

Автор: James Howard Smith

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Издател: The University of Chicago Press

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These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized effort...

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Автор

James Howard Smith

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2008

страници

272

EAN

9780226764580

ISBN

0226764583

Enbook ID

04549507

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

428

Размери

153 x 228 x 22

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These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies as latter-day imperialism, such plans too closely reflect their roots in colonial rule and neoliberal economics. But proponents of this pessimistic view often ignore how significant this concept has become for Africans themselves. In "Bewitching Development", James Howard Smith presents a close ethnographic 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.Similar to magic, development's promise of a better world elicits both hope and suspicion from Wataita. Smith shows that the unforeseen changes wrought by development - greater wealth for some, dashed hopes for many more - foster moral debates that Taita people express in occult terms. By carefully chronicling the beliefs and actions of this diverse community - from frustrated youths to nostalgic seniors, duplicitous preachers to thought-provoking witch doctors - "Bewitching Development" vividly depicts the social life of formerly foreign ideas and practices in postcolonial Africa.

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