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From: Lorna Zukas <llueker@NU.EDU>
List Editor: Lorna Zukas <llueker@NU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: PODCAST: Witchcraft, AIDS and Power (Episode 68 - Africa Past and Present)
Author's Subject: PODCAST: Witchcraft, AIDS and Power (Episode 68 - Africa Past and Present)
Date Written: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:16:09 +0000
Date Posted: Fri, 29 Nov 2012 18:16:09 -0500

Peter Alegi
alegi@msu.edu

Episode 68 of Africa Past and Present -- the podcast about African history,
culture, and politics -- is now available at:  http://afripod.aodl.org

In this episode, Adam Ashforth (University of Michigan) discusses "witchcraft" 
in rural Central and urban Southern Africa. He makes connections with colonial
and postcolonial power and authority; gender; spiritual insecurity and
religious enthusiasm; law, culture, and HIV/AIDS in Malawi;
"anti-anti-witchcraft," and the "serious laughter" of photographer Santu
Mofokeng.

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