Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa

Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Nomenclature
Introduction
Part One / Soweto
1. Spiritual Insecurity and Political Power
2. Dimensions of Insecurity in Contemporary Soweto
3. On Living in a World with Witches
4. Freedom, Democracy, and Witchcraft: Soweto in the 1990s
5. On Believing, and Not Believing, in Witchcraft
Part Two / Sources of Spiritual Insecurity
6. Poison, Medicine, and the Power of Secret Knowledge
7. Death, Pollution, and the Dangers of Dirt
8. A Brief History of the Spirit World
9. Invisible Beings in Everyday Life
10. Vulnerabilities of the Soul
Part Three / Spiritual Insecurity and the State
11. Witchcraft, Violence, and Justice
12. Democratic Statecraft in a World of Witches
Epilogue
Appendix 1: The Literature on Soweto—a Brief Excursus
Appendix 2: The Thohoyandou Declaration on Ending Witchcraft Violence, Issued by the Commission on Gender Equality
Selected Bibliography
Index