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Magic and warfareappearance and reality in contemporary African conflict and beyond /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Magic and warfareNathalie Wlodarczyk.
Reminder of title:	appearance and reality in contemporary African conflict and beyond /
Author:	Wlodarczyk, Nathalie.
Published:	New York City :Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	xvi, 188 p. :ill.
Subject:	War and societyCase studies.Africa
Subject:	Afrika.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230103344

Magic and warfareappearance and reality in contemporary African conflict and beyond /
Wlodarczyk, Nathalie.

Magic and warfareappearance and reality in contemporary African conflict and beyond /[electronic resource] :Nathalie Wlodarczyk. - 1st ed. - New York City :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xvi, 188 p. :ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-176) and index.

"Magic" in contemporary Africa -- Spirits in battle -- Thinking about practice in warfare -- Notes on the case study -- The Sierra Leone Civil War and civil defence -- Spiritual context as habitus and capital -- Creating magic soldiers : Kamajor mobilisation and initiation -- The Kamajors in battle : magic, tactics, and success -- Local practice and the wider world of warfare.

This study explores the roles played by magic in contemporary African warfare, specifically through the case of Sierra Leone, to assess itsimpact on behaviour in conflict. In the last fifteen years, rituals designed to imbue people with supernatural power and make them immune to enemy fire have been seen on battlefields across Africa. Wlodarczyk argues that the use of magic in warfare can be understood, not as an illustration of how Africa's reality is qualitatively different from the West's, but as appropriate and logical. Here, a conceptual framework is suggested for analysing culturally alien practices more broadly, to inform approaches to civilian and military intervention not only in Africa but in conflict theatres around the world.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230103344Subjects--Topical Terms:

477959
War and society
--Africa--Case studies.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

461980
Afrika.

LC Class. No.: DT516.826 / .W55 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 966.404

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