Adam Ashforth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 127662 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Adam Ashforth |
| PRENOMES | Adam |
| SOBRENOME | Ashforth |
| ASSINATURA | ASHFORTH A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Michigan |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 374 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
An Expository Study of Witchcraft among the Basoga of Uganda
Narratives of Death in Rural Malawi in the Time of Aids
The key to understanding the experience of AIDS mortality lies in the stories that people tell each other about those they know who are suspected to have died from AIDS. We use a unique set of texts produced by rural Malawians reporting everyday conversations in their communities. These texts, drawn from the online archive of the Malawi Journals Project, consist of several thousand instances of ordinary people telling each other stories in the or…
Witchcraft, Justice, and Human Rights in Africa
The human rights approach to witchcraft accusations denies their validity and forecloses the possibility of a trial, fair or otherwise. While there is much to be said for a bracing rationalism in all aspects of life, evidence from Africa over the past couple of centuries shows no sign that witchcraft narratives lose their plausibility as a result of people being told that witches do not exist
The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth Century South Africa
On political power and political knowledge naming the natives, designing a state a permanent cure for an economic evil different parts of the same big machine discovering a different difference reformulating realities for the era of reform antinomies of the divided state
Anneke Verheijen. Balancing Men, Morals, and Money
Anneke Verheijen. Balancing Men, Morals, and Money: Women’s Agency Between HIV and Security in a Malawian Village. Leiden: African Studies Centre, African Studies Collection, vol. 53, 2013. xii + 301pp. References. Appendixes. Summary. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/21741. - Volume 57 Issue 2
When the Vampires Come for You
This paper tells the story of a community in rural Malawi who, fired by rumors that regularly sweep this east and central Africa, believed themselves under assault by "bloodsuckers"—vampireshiredby the country's president, in exchangefor "foreign aid," to siphon the blood of poor African villagers for Satanic rituals by rich Whites overseas. In response, the villagers organized and took action to defend themselves, with dire results: a young chil…
Love in the Time of Aids
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Aids, religious enthusiasm and spiritual insecurity in Africa
The connection between the AIDS epidemic and the efflorescence of religious 'enthusiasm' (construed in both classical and contemporary senses) in Africa in recent decades is best understood, this paper argues, by reference to a concept of 'spiritual insecurity'. The article offers a general description of the condition of spiritual insecurity and argues that it is best studied within a relational realist paradigm. The article presents a critique …
Morality, Hope and Grief
Ethnic Violence and the Prospects for Democracy in the Aftermath of the 2007 Kenyan Elections
This essay anatomizes the postelection violence in Kenya in 2007 to identify the different forms of ethnic conflict so as to analyze their implications for the future stability of a democratic regime in the country. It argues that five types of ethnic conflict marked the aftermath of the elections: ethnically targeted state repression, targeting of local ethnic proxies for national political figures, ethnic vigilantism, opportunistic criminal vio…
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa
Ambiguities of 'Culture' and the Antiretroviral Rollout in South Africa
This paper reflects on two contrasting cultural strategies for supporting the rollout of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART): The Treatment Action Campaign's Treatment Literacy Programme which seeks to educate people into a conventional scientific understanding of HIV disease and treatment; and a Department of Health Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) video which harnesses putative ‘indigenous knowledge’ relating to illness and heal…
Muthi, Medicine and Witchcraft
This paper comprises extracts from Adam Ashforth's book: Witchcraft. Violence and Democracy in South Africa (Chicago University Press, 2005). It argues that the distinction between witchcraft and healing is essentially a moral one (healers and witches use supernatural forces supposedly for different ends) and that both activities fall under the rubric of ‘African science’. Whereas proponents of ‘Indigenous Knowledge Systems’ attempt, as part of a…
Quand le sida est sorcellerie
En Afrique du Sud, le sida, arrivé sur les talons de la démocratie, représente un défi politique pour le nouveau régime. Tout d'abord parce qu'il s'agit d'une crise majeure de santé publique, dont le pouvoir n'a pas su saisir à temps l'importance et qu'il a jusqu'ici assez mal gérée. Mais aussi parce que, de par ses caractéristiques propres, le sida suscite spontanément dans la population des soupçons de sorcellerie. L'interprétation du malheur e…
An Epidemic of Witchcraft? The Implications of Aids for the Post-Apartheid State
In this paper I shall begin by outlining some of the political dimensions of the crisis understood in the conventional discourses of public health policy. Then I shall inquire as to how these dimensions might be complicated by the question of witchcraft. My method here will be somewhat abstract and hypothetical. Rather than an ethnographic description of AIDS and in concrete circumstances I shall outline a general framework of presumptions and hy…
Madumo, a Man Bewitched
Madumo, a Man Bewitched
Réflexions sur l'insécurité spirituelle dans une ville africaine moderne (Soweto)
Cet article traite des aspects de l'insécurité spirituelle dans un contexte de pauvreté, de difficultés et de violence générales, en étudiant les questions d'épistémologie relatives aux modes de compréhension de l'action des forces de l'invisible sur les fortunes et malheurs de la vie quotidienne. Il suggère que l'intensité actuelle de l'insécurité spirituelle à Soweto provient en grande partie de l'absence d'un cadre d'interprétation dominant
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in the New South Africa
Sorcellerie, violence et démocratie dans la Nouvelle Afrique du Sud. - À partir d'enquêtes de terrain réalisées à Soweto, en Afrique du Sud, depuis 1990, cet article entend souligner le fait que la pratique de la sorcellerie se développe au fur et à mesure que se met en place le processus de transition démocratique. L'auteur confronte les problèmes de sorcellerie, de violence et de démocratie qui se posent à Soweto ; puis il présente trois dialog…
Reflections on Spiritual Insecurity in a Modern African City (Soweto)
L'A. relate d'abord un incident qui eut lieu en juillet 1998 quand dans un campement de fortune en dehors de Soweto les gens furent avertis qu'un serpent geant connu sous le nom de Inkosi ya Manzi (roi des eaux) etait en colere et qu'il menacait de detruire le campement. Son objectif est d'examiner la question de l'insecurite spirituelle dans un contexte de pauvrete extreme, de difficulte sociale et de violence. Il tente de mettre en evidence ces…
Lineaments of the Political Geography of State Formation in Twentieth-Century South Africa
As a step towards framing an understanding of the politics of the South African transition and the prospects for democracy in that country, this paper asks the question: what kind of state is it that is being transformed? It offers the argument that we should conceptualize the history of state formation within the territory that is presently called South Africa in terms of three inter-related trajectories: imperial, national, and urban. By doing …
Social/Cultural Anthropology
The Xhosa cattle killing and the politics of memory
Reckoning Schemes of Legitimation
Drawing upon literature from Australia, Canada, England, India, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States this article offers an alternative framework for the study of Commissions of Inquiry. Conventional understandings of such inquiries as policy-making instruments of Government fail to grasp the significance of their political form. A reading which stresses the symbolic and ritual aspects of their work and analyses the forms of communication …
Studies of African states and the state of African studies
Sandra T. Barnes, Patrons and Power: Creating a Political Community in Metropolitan Lagos, Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, 1986, pp.261. $128.00 (cloth). Patrick Chabal (ed.), Political Domination in Africa: Reflections on the Limits of Power, Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp.211. $33.50 (paper). Preston King, An African Winter, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1986, pp.249. $9.95 (paper). John Sender and Sheila Sm…
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa
Reckoning Schemes of Legitimation
Drawing upon literature from Australia, Canada, England, India, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States this article offers an alternative framework for the study of Commissions of Inquiry. Conventional understandings of such inquiries as policy-making instruments of Government fail to grasp the significance of their political form. A reading which stresses the symbolic and ritual aspects of their work and analyses the forms of communication …
An Epidemic of Witchcraft? The Implications of Aids for the Post-Apartheid State
In this paper I shall begin by outlining some of the political dimensions of the crisis understood in the conventional discourses of public health policy. Then I shall inquire as to how these dimensions might be complicated by the question of witchcraft. My method here will be somewhat abstract and hypothetical. Rather than an ethnographic description of AIDS and in concrete circumstances I shall outline a general framework of presumptions and hy…
Reflections on Spiritual Insecurity in a Modern African City (Soweto)
L'A. relate d'abord un incident qui eut lieu en juillet 1998 quand dans un campement de fortune en dehors de Soweto les gens furent avertis qu'un serpent geant connu sous le nom de Inkosi ya Manzi (roi des eaux) etait en colere et qu'il menacait de detruire le campement. Son objectif est d'examiner la question de l'insecurite spirituelle dans un contexte de pauvrete extreme, de difficulte sociale et de violence. Il tente de mettre en evidence ces…
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in the New South Africa
Sorcellerie, violence et démocratie dans la Nouvelle Afrique du Sud. - À partir d'enquêtes de terrain réalisées à Soweto, en Afrique du Sud, depuis 1990, cet article entend souligner le fait que la pratique de la sorcellerie se développe au fur et à mesure que se met en place le processus de transition démocratique. L'auteur confronte les problèmes de sorcellerie, de violence et de démocratie qui se posent à Soweto ; puis il présente trois dialog…
Witchcraft, Justice, and Human Rights in Africa
The human rights approach to witchcraft accusations denies their validity and forecloses the possibility of a trial, fair or otherwise. While there is much to be said for a bracing rationalism in all aspects of life, evidence from Africa over the past couple of centuries shows no sign that witchcraft narratives lose their plausibility as a result of people being told that witches do not exist
Muthi, Medicine and Witchcraft
This paper comprises extracts from Adam Ashforth's book: Witchcraft. Violence and Democracy in South Africa (Chicago University Press, 2005). It argues that the distinction between witchcraft and healing is essentially a moral one (healers and witches use supernatural forces supposedly for different ends) and that both activities fall under the rubric of ‘African science’. Whereas proponents of ‘Indigenous Knowledge Systems’ attempt, as part of a…
Narratives of Death in Rural Malawi in the Time of Aids
The key to understanding the experience of AIDS mortality lies in the stories that people tell each other about those they know who are suspected to have died from AIDS. We use a unique set of texts produced by rural Malawians reporting everyday conversations in their communities. These texts, drawn from the online archive of the Malawi Journals Project, consist of several thousand instances of ordinary people telling each other stories in the or…
Ambiguities of 'Culture' and the Antiretroviral Rollout in South Africa
This paper reflects on two contrasting cultural strategies for supporting the rollout of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART): The Treatment Action Campaign's Treatment Literacy Programme which seeks to educate people into a conventional scientific understanding of HIV disease and treatment; and a Department of Health Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) video which harnesses putative ‘indigenous knowledge’ relating to illness and heal…
The Xhosa cattle killing and the politics of memory
When the Vampires Come for You
This paper tells the story of a community in rural Malawi who, fired by rumors that regularly sweep this east and central Africa, believed themselves under assault by "bloodsuckers"—vampireshiredby the country's president, in exchangefor "foreign aid," to siphon the blood of poor African villagers for Satanic rituals by rich Whites overseas. In response, the villagers organized and took action to defend themselves, with dire results: a young chil…
Réflexions sur l'insécurité spirituelle dans une ville africaine moderne (Soweto)
Cet article traite des aspects de l'insécurité spirituelle dans un contexte de pauvreté, de difficultés et de violence générales, en étudiant les questions d'épistémologie relatives aux modes de compréhension de l'action des forces de l'invisible sur les fortunes et malheurs de la vie quotidienne. Il suggère que l'intensité actuelle de l'insécurité spirituelle à Soweto provient en grande partie de l'absence d'un cadre d'interprétation dominant
Ethnic Violence and the Prospects for Democracy in the Aftermath of the 2007 Kenyan Elections
This essay anatomizes the postelection violence in Kenya in 2007 to identify the different forms of ethnic conflict so as to analyze their implications for the future stability of a democratic regime in the country. It argues that five types of ethnic conflict marked the aftermath of the elections: ethnically targeted state repression, targeting of local ethnic proxies for national political figures, ethnic vigilantism, opportunistic criminal vio…
Lineaments of the Political Geography of State Formation in Twentieth-Century South Africa
As a step towards framing an understanding of the politics of the South African transition and the prospects for democracy in that country, this paper asks the question: what kind of state is it that is being transformed? It offers the argument that we should conceptualize the history of state formation within the territory that is presently called South Africa in terms of three inter-related trajectories: imperial, national, and urban. By doing …
Studies of African states and the state of African studies
Sandra T. Barnes, Patrons and Power: Creating a Political Community in Metropolitan Lagos, Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, 1986, pp.261. $128.00 (cloth). Patrick Chabal (ed.), Political Domination in Africa: Reflections on the Limits of Power, Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp.211. $33.50 (paper). Preston King, An African Winter, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1986, pp.249. $9.95 (paper). John Sender and Sheila Sm…
Reckoning Schemes of Legitimation
Drawing upon literature from Australia, Canada, England, India, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States this article offers an alternative framework for the study of Commissions of Inquiry. Conventional understandings of such inquiries as policy-making instruments of Government fail to grasp the significance of their political form. A reading which stresses the symbolic and ritual aspects of their work and analyses the forms of communication …
The Xhosa cattle killing and the politics of memory
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Lineaments of the Political Geography of State Formation in Twentieth-Century South Africa
As a step towards framing an understanding of the politics of the South African transition and the prospects for democracy in that country, this paper asks the question: what kind of state is it that is being transformed? It offers the argument that we should conceptualize the history of state formation within the territory that is presently called South Africa in terms of three inter-related trajectories: imperial, national, and urban. By doing …
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in the New South Africa
Sorcellerie, violence et démocratie dans la Nouvelle Afrique du Sud. - À partir d'enquêtes de terrain réalisées à Soweto, en Afrique du Sud, depuis 1990, cet article entend souligner le fait que la pratique de la sorcellerie se développe au fur et à mesure que se met en place le processus de transition démocratique. L'auteur confronte les problèmes de sorcellerie, de violence et de démocratie qui se posent à Soweto ; puis il présente trois dialog…
Reflections on Spiritual Insecurity in a Modern African City (Soweto)
L'A. relate d'abord un incident qui eut lieu en juillet 1998 quand dans un campement de fortune en dehors de Soweto les gens furent avertis qu'un serpent geant connu sous le nom de Inkosi ya Manzi (roi des eaux) etait en colere et qu'il menacait de detruire le campement. Son objectif est d'examiner la question de l'insecurite spirituelle dans un contexte de pauvrete extreme, de difficulte sociale et de violence. Il tente de mettre en evidence ces…
Madumo, a Man Bewitched
Réflexions sur l'insécurité spirituelle dans une ville africaine moderne (Soweto)
Cet article traite des aspects de l'insécurité spirituelle dans un contexte de pauvreté, de difficultés et de violence générales, en étudiant les questions d'épistémologie relatives aux modes de compréhension de l'action des forces de l'invisible sur les fortunes et malheurs de la vie quotidienne. Il suggère que l'intensité actuelle de l'insécurité spirituelle à Soweto provient en grande partie de l'absence d'un cadre d'interprétation dominant
Madumo, a Man Bewitched
Quand le sida est sorcellerie
En Afrique du Sud, le sida, arrivé sur les talons de la démocratie, représente un défi politique pour le nouveau régime. Tout d'abord parce qu'il s'agit d'une crise majeure de santé publique, dont le pouvoir n'a pas su saisir à temps l'importance et qu'il a jusqu'ici assez mal gérée. Mais aussi parce que, de par ses caractéristiques propres, le sida suscite spontanément dans la population des soupçons de sorcellerie. L'interprétation du malheur e…
An Epidemic of Witchcraft? The Implications of Aids for the Post-Apartheid State
In this paper I shall begin by outlining some of the political dimensions of the crisis understood in the conventional discourses of public health policy. Then I shall inquire as to how these dimensions might be complicated by the question of witchcraft. My method here will be somewhat abstract and hypothetical. Rather than an ethnographic description of AIDS and in concrete circumstances I shall outline a general framework of presumptions and hy…
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa
Ambiguities of 'Culture' and the Antiretroviral Rollout in South Africa
This paper reflects on two contrasting cultural strategies for supporting the rollout of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART): The Treatment Action Campaign's Treatment Literacy Programme which seeks to educate people into a conventional scientific understanding of HIV disease and treatment; and a Department of Health Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) video which harnesses putative ‘indigenous knowledge’ relating to illness and heal…
Muthi, Medicine and Witchcraft
This paper comprises extracts from Adam Ashforth's book: Witchcraft. Violence and Democracy in South Africa (Chicago University Press, 2005). It argues that the distinction between witchcraft and healing is essentially a moral one (healers and witches use supernatural forces supposedly for different ends) and that both activities fall under the rubric of ‘African science’. Whereas proponents of ‘Indigenous Knowledge Systems’ attempt, as part of a…
Ethnic Violence and the Prospects for Democracy in the Aftermath of the 2007 Kenyan Elections
This essay anatomizes the postelection violence in Kenya in 2007 to identify the different forms of ethnic conflict so as to analyze their implications for the future stability of a democratic regime in the country. It argues that five types of ethnic conflict marked the aftermath of the elections: ethnically targeted state repression, targeting of local ethnic proxies for national political figures, ethnic vigilantism, opportunistic criminal vio…
Morality, Hope and Grief
Aids, religious enthusiasm and spiritual insecurity in Africa
The connection between the AIDS epidemic and the efflorescence of religious 'enthusiasm' (construed in both classical and contemporary senses) in Africa in recent decades is best understood, this paper argues, by reference to a concept of 'spiritual insecurity'. The article offers a general description of the condition of spiritual insecurity and argues that it is best studied within a relational realist paradigm. The article presents a critique …
Love in the Time of Aids
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth Century South Africa
On political power and political knowledge naming the natives, designing a state a permanent cure for an economic evil different parts of the same big machine discovering a different difference reformulating realities for the era of reform antinomies of the divided state
Anneke Verheijen. Balancing Men, Morals, and Money
Anneke Verheijen. Balancing Men, Morals, and Money: Women’s Agency Between HIV and Security in a Malawian Village. Leiden: African Studies Centre, African Studies Collection, vol. 53, 2013. xii + 301pp. References. Appendixes. Summary. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/21741. - Volume 57 Issue 2
When the Vampires Come for You
This paper tells the story of a community in rural Malawi who, fired by rumors that regularly sweep this east and central Africa, believed themselves under assault by "bloodsuckers"—vampireshiredby the country's president, in exchangefor "foreign aid," to siphon the blood of poor African villagers for Satanic rituals by rich Whites overseas. In response, the villagers organized and took action to defend themselves, with dire results: a young chil…
Narratives of Death in Rural Malawi in the Time of Aids
The key to understanding the experience of AIDS mortality lies in the stories that people tell each other about those they know who are suspected to have died from AIDS. We use a unique set of texts produced by rural Malawians reporting everyday conversations in their communities. These texts, drawn from the online archive of the Malawi Journals Project, consist of several thousand instances of ordinary people telling each other stories in the or…
Witchcraft, Justice, and Human Rights in Africa
The human rights approach to witchcraft accusations denies their validity and forecloses the possibility of a trial, fair or otherwise. While there is much to be said for a bracing rationalism in all aspects of life, evidence from Africa over the past couple of centuries shows no sign that witchcraft narratives lose their plausibility as a result of people being told that witches do not exist
An Expository Study of Witchcraft among the Basoga of Uganda
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