caa a22 4500 388044489 CHVBK 20180307125032.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/525356 doi S0002020600034041 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/525356 Ciekawy Diane Witchcraft in Statecraft: Five Technologies of Power in Colonial and Postcolonial Coastal Kenya [Elektronische Daten] [Diane Ciekawy] This work focuses on the production of discourse on witchcraft in relation to colonial and postcolonial statecraft in coastal Kenya. It distinguishes between two sets of terms for magical harm, the Mijikenda term utsai and the term witchcraft, and uses this analytical distinction to draw attention to the different worlds from which utsai and witchcraft emerge, and to frame each discourse on magical harm in terms of the political conditions of its production and use. It presents "witchcraft” as a disciplinary technology with five component practices identified as "witchcraft technologies of power.” These technologies have wide general applicability to other colonial and postcolonial situations in Africa and can be used to illuminate both processes of state formation and the emergence of new forms of magic and the occult. Copyright © African Studies Association 1998 African Studies Review Cambridge University Press 41/3(1998-12), 119-141 0002-0206 41:3<119 1998 41 ASR https://doi.org/10.2307/525356 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/525356 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ciekawy Diane NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- African Studies Review Cambridge University Press 41/3(1998-12), 119-141 0002-0206 41:3<119 1998 41 ASR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge