Witchcraft and colonial rule in Kenya, 1900-1955
By: Katherine Luongo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781107012189
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Colonial administrators; Colonial influence; Witchcraft; Law and legislation; HISTORY / Africa / General; British; Trials (Witchcraft); Kamba (African people); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Clans and councils, caravans and conquest, cosmology and colonialism : Ukambani in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; title: Understanding Uoi, Uwe, and Kithitu in Ukambani; title: The "cosmology" of the colonial state; title: The Wakamba witch trials : a witch-murder in 1930s Kenya; title: Witchcraft, murder, and death sentences after Rex v. Kumwaka; title: The world of oathing and witchcraft in Mau Mau-era Machakos; title: Cleansing Ukambani witches; title: Epilogue.