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Evil in Africa: Encounters with the Everyday
By William C. Olsen (Editor), Walter E. A. van Beek (Editor), Jennie E. Burnet (Contribution by), Linda van de Kamp (Contribution by), L ocadie Ekou (Contribution by), Judy Rosenthal (Contribution by), Dorothy L. Hodgson (Contribution by), Diane Ciekawy (Contribution by), Ulrika Trovalla (Contribution by), Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Contribution by), Roy Martin Dilley (Contribution by), Kjersti Larsen (Contribution by), Ren Joseph Devisch (Contribution by), Susan J. Rasmussen (Contribution by), Wyatt MacGaffey (Contribution by), David Parkin (Foreword by), S nia Silva (Contribution by), Susan Reynolds Whyte (Contribution by), Lotte Meinert (Contribution by), Jok Madut Jok (Contribution by), Julaina A. Obika (Contribution by), Maia Green (Contribution by), Adam Ashforth (Contribution by)
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By William C. Olsen (Editor), Walter E. A. van Beek (Editor), Jennie E. Burnet (Contribution by), Linda van de Kamp (Contribution by), L ocadie Ekou (Contribution by), Judy Rosenthal (Contribution by), Dorothy L. Hodgson (Contribution by), Diane Ciekawy (Contribution by), Ulrika Trovalla (Contribution by), Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Contribution by), Roy Martin Dilley (Contribution by), Kjersti Larsen (Contribution by), Ren Joseph Devisch (Contribution by), Susan J. Rasmussen (Contribution by), Wyatt MacGaffey (Contribution by), David Parkin (Foreword by), S nia Silva (Contribution by), Susan Reynolds Whyte (Contribution by), Lotte Meinert (Contribution by), Jok Madut Jok (Contribution by), Julaina A. Obika (Contribution by), Maia Green (Contribution by), Adam Ashforth (Contribution by)
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William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in African cultural and social contexts. These studies of evil entanglements take local and national hi...