Human sacrifice and the supernatural in African history [electronic resource] / Lawrence E.Y. Mbogoni.

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Mbogoni, Lawrence Ezekiel Yona [author.]

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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 2015); Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (x, 256 pages) :) color illustrationsISBN:

9789870827047

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GN473.5 .M365 2013

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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Human sacrifice and the supernatural in African history : an overview -- Human sacrifice and the supernatural in the Asante Empire and modern-day Ghana -- Human sacrifice and the supernatural in Sierra Leone -- "Medicine murder" in Lesotho -- "Medicine murder" in Swaziland -- Human sacrifice and the killing of albinos in Tanzania -- Human sacrifice and the supernatural in Uganda -- Human sacrifice and the supernatural in Zanzibar -- Mail order magic : commercial exploitation of folk belief -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Subject index by alphabetical order.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-252) and index.

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