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James Howard Smith

Bewitching Development

Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Development in Neoliberal Kenya

272 pages, 5 halftones, 3 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2008
Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning

Cloth $53.00

ISBN: 9780226764573   Published September 2008

Paper $21.00

ISBN: 9780226764580   Published September 2008

Preface

Chapter One: Bewitching Development: The Disintegration and Reinvention of Development in Kenya

Chapter Two: I Still Exist! Taita Historicity

Chapter Three: Development’s Other: Witchcraft as Development through the Looking Glass

Chapter Four: “Each Household Is a Kingdom”: Development and Witchcraft at Home

Chapter Five: “Dot Com Will Die Seriously!” Spatiotemporal Miscommunication and Competing Sovereignties in Taita Thought and Ritual

Chapter Six: Development, Witchcraft, and the Sovereign Child

Chapter Seven: Democracy Victorious: Exorcising Witchcraft from Development

Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Tempopolitics, Or Why Development Should Not be Defined as the Improvement of Living Standards

 

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