Ritual Killing, 419, and Fast Wealth: Inequality and the Popular Imagination in Southeastern Nigeria
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| ANO | 2001 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | American Ethnologist |
| ISSN | 0094-0496 |
| E-ISSN | 1548-1425 |
| EDITORA | Sage Publications (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.2001.28.4.803 |
| CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
In this article, I situate a seemingly fantastic series of events in Nigeria in a context that renders them meaningful and acknowledges their intimate connection to everyday issues of wealth, power, and inequality. Focusing on popular stories of the occult circulating in the wake of a widely publicized case of ritual killing, I argue that these stories depict popular discontent over inequality, but also Nigerians' ambivalence about and critical awareness of their own role in maintaining patron‐clientism. [Nigeria, patronage, inequality, witchcraft]