This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or sy... more This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material.
A list of publications by authors using the journals in the Malawi Journals Project.http://deepbl... more A list of publications by authors using the journals in the Malawi Journals Project.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136119/1/List of Publications (formatted) 160921.docx-1Description of List of Publications (formatted) 160921.docx : Bibliography of Malawi Journals publication
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116817/1/Ashforth on Apartheid and t... more Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116817/1/Ashforth on Apartheid and the Epistemology of Evil.pd
Of Secrecy and the Commonplace: Witchcraft and Power in Soweto Journal article by Adam Ashforth; ... more Of Secrecy and the Commonplace: Witchcraft and Power in Soweto Journal article by Adam Ashforth; Social Research, Vol. 63, 1996. ...
... Religion and Politics in Southern Africa contains a few largely historical surveys which are ... more ... Religion and Politics in Southern Africa contains a few largely historical surveys which are still informative. ... Ephraim Mandivenga draws on his extensive knowledge of Islam in Southern Africa to put the Muslim contribution in South Africa in a wider perspective, although he ...
... Witchcraft, violence, and democracy in South Africa. Debie LeBeau. Article first published on... more ... Witchcraft, violence, and democracy in South Africa. Debie LeBeau. Article first published online: 11 AUG 2009. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01577_15.x. ... More content like this. Find more content: like this article. Find more content written by: Debie LeBeau. ...
On the evening of December 23, 2007, a young man in rural southern Malawi, whom we shall call Sim... more On the evening of December 23, 2007, a young man in rural southern Malawi, whom we shall call Simon, noted in his journal an alarming story that his wife had just told him. 1 The previous night, bloodsuckers had come to a neighbor's house. Their mission had been to kill the family and pump out their blood. The blood was needed for Satanic rituals. The horror.. .. Earlier that day at the borehole, that font of rumor, gossip, and water, Simon's wife had "heard that the blood suckers are the whites from abroad, more particularly [the] United States, the ones who were distributing free food to the orphans as well as to diseased people." These whites were using locals to do their evil work in Malawi. Everyone agreed, she told Simon, that these whites from overseas have now "come back through [the] government that they should be sucking people's blood at night as their reward." "Azungu ochockera kunja," the women at the borehole had said in Chichewa: Whites from abroad. Adding to his wife's account, Simon reported in his journal that in some villages where Pentecostal churches have been established, chiefs "have been accusing these members and saying they are one way or another connected" with the bloodsucking. In Malawi, as in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, Pentecostalism, with its obsessions over
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116825/1/Ashforth on Spiritual Insec... more Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116825/1/Ashforth on Spiritual Insecurity and AIDS in SA (for Dilger and Luig).pd
Anneke Verheijen. Balancing Men, Morals, and Money: Women's Agency Between HIV and Security i... more 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 + 301 pp. References. Appendixes. Summary, https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/21741.A specter haunts the pages of those who write of HIV in Africa, the specter of the Vulnerable Woman. As Jenny Higgins, Susie Hoffman, and Shari Dworkin, among others, have shown, a widespread tendency by researchers to ignore women in the early years of the epidemic has in the past decade or so been replaced by a "paradigm" in which the "vulnerable woman" has come to be the face of the epidemic. Women are presumed "susceptible to HIV because of biological differences in susceptibility, reduced sexual autonomy, and men's sexual power and privilege" ("Rethinking Gender, Heterosexual Men, and Women's Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS," American Journal of Publ...
I t now seems highly likely that within the near future, some say within the coming year, a new c... more I t now seems highly likely that within the near future, some say within the coming year, a new constitution will be inaugurated in South Africa. For any new constitution to gain a semblance of legitimacy either locally or internationally, it will have to look something like a liberal democracy with social welfare ambitions; majority rule within a unified state. There should also be some system built into the constitution for preservation of "minority" rights, perhaps through geographical representation of communities, although there will not be any language in the document that recalls the "group rights" of apartheid. There will probably also be some system of strengthened regional government. Basic property rights of market capitalism will, in all likelihood, be sanctified as well. In this same not-too-distant time, shortly after the ceremonies celebrating the inaugural government of the New South Africa, two events laden with historical irony will occur. A bla...
This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or sy... more This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material.
A list of publications by authors using the journals in the Malawi Journals Project.http://deepbl... more A list of publications by authors using the journals in the Malawi Journals Project.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136119/1/List of Publications (formatted) 160921.docx-1Description of List of Publications (formatted) 160921.docx : Bibliography of Malawi Journals publication
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116817/1/Ashforth on Apartheid and t... more Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116817/1/Ashforth on Apartheid and the Epistemology of Evil.pd
Of Secrecy and the Commonplace: Witchcraft and Power in Soweto Journal article by Adam Ashforth; ... more Of Secrecy and the Commonplace: Witchcraft and Power in Soweto Journal article by Adam Ashforth; Social Research, Vol. 63, 1996. ...
... Religion and Politics in Southern Africa contains a few largely historical surveys which are ... more ... Religion and Politics in Southern Africa contains a few largely historical surveys which are still informative. ... Ephraim Mandivenga draws on his extensive knowledge of Islam in Southern Africa to put the Muslim contribution in South Africa in a wider perspective, although he ...
... Witchcraft, violence, and democracy in South Africa. Debie LeBeau. Article first published on... more ... Witchcraft, violence, and democracy in South Africa. Debie LeBeau. Article first published online: 11 AUG 2009. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01577_15.x. ... More content like this. Find more content: like this article. Find more content written by: Debie LeBeau. ...
On the evening of December 23, 2007, a young man in rural southern Malawi, whom we shall call Sim... more On the evening of December 23, 2007, a young man in rural southern Malawi, whom we shall call Simon, noted in his journal an alarming story that his wife had just told him. 1 The previous night, bloodsuckers had come to a neighbor's house. Their mission had been to kill the family and pump out their blood. The blood was needed for Satanic rituals. The horror.. .. Earlier that day at the borehole, that font of rumor, gossip, and water, Simon's wife had "heard that the blood suckers are the whites from abroad, more particularly [the] United States, the ones who were distributing free food to the orphans as well as to diseased people." These whites were using locals to do their evil work in Malawi. Everyone agreed, she told Simon, that these whites from overseas have now "come back through [the] government that they should be sucking people's blood at night as their reward." "Azungu ochockera kunja," the women at the borehole had said in Chichewa: Whites from abroad. Adding to his wife's account, Simon reported in his journal that in some villages where Pentecostal churches have been established, chiefs "have been accusing these members and saying they are one way or another connected" with the bloodsucking. In Malawi, as in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, Pentecostalism, with its obsessions over
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116825/1/Ashforth on Spiritual Insec... more Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116825/1/Ashforth on Spiritual Insecurity and AIDS in SA (for Dilger and Luig).pd
Anneke Verheijen. Balancing Men, Morals, and Money: Women's Agency Between HIV and Security i... more 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 + 301 pp. References. Appendixes. Summary, https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/21741.A specter haunts the pages of those who write of HIV in Africa, the specter of the Vulnerable Woman. As Jenny Higgins, Susie Hoffman, and Shari Dworkin, among others, have shown, a widespread tendency by researchers to ignore women in the early years of the epidemic has in the past decade or so been replaced by a "paradigm" in which the "vulnerable woman" has come to be the face of the epidemic. Women are presumed "susceptible to HIV because of biological differences in susceptibility, reduced sexual autonomy, and men's sexual power and privilege" ("Rethinking Gender, Heterosexual Men, and Women's Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS," American Journal of Publ...
I t now seems highly likely that within the near future, some say within the coming year, a new c... more I t now seems highly likely that within the near future, some say within the coming year, a new constitution will be inaugurated in South Africa. For any new constitution to gain a semblance of legitimacy either locally or internationally, it will have to look something like a liberal democracy with social welfare ambitions; majority rule within a unified state. There should also be some system built into the constitution for preservation of "minority" rights, perhaps through geographical representation of communities, although there will not be any language in the document that recalls the "group rights" of apartheid. There will probably also be some system of strengthened regional government. Basic property rights of market capitalism will, in all likelihood, be sanctified as well. In this same not-too-distant time, shortly after the ceremonies celebrating the inaugural government of the New South Africa, two events laden with historical irony will occur. A bla...
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