Betrayal or affirmation?: Transformations in witchcraft technologies of power, danger and agency among the Tuareg of Niger

Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 136-159

  Rasmussen, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203398258-7     Document Type: Chapter

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