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Title:The Dynamics of Witchcraft and Indigenous Shrines among the Akan
Author:Parish, JaneISNI
Year:1999
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:69
Issue:3
Pages:426-447
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:Akan
witchcraft
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Religion and Witchcraft
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1161216
Abstract:This article shows how contemporary witchcraft discourses amongst the Akan of Ghana are reflective of an ongoing autocritique of modernity and tradition among different generations of shrine-goers and Pentecostals, amid a series of self-reflexive speculations about sociability and consumption. The article concentrates on ideas of conspicuous consumption among young people and the attitudes of older members to it. It highlights the way the evil traits of modernity and tradition are articulated through witchcraft discourses at antiwitchcraft shrines, currently found in the Brong-Ahafo Region. The article is based on fieldwork carried ou in Dormaa-Ahenkro between 1990 and 1991. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French.
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