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La stregoneria come discorso sulla percezione della modernità: la credenza nei kôn
By: VALENTINA SBOCCHIA – Following Gonzalez Díez’s (2013 and 2014) work on Gabonese witchcraft, this article aims to understand how traditional forms of witchcraft, and specifically the transformation of people into kôn, that is zombie-like slaves laboring for their masters, is based on relationships of kinship and power. Regional variations in Cameroon and South Africa…