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"In Dante's Inferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust, Peter Geschiere m…
"In Dante's Inferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust, Peter Geschiere m…
Words and Worlds: A Lexicon for Dark Times
by De Waal, Alex, Müller, Jan-Werner, Kanbur, Ravi, Fassin, Didier, Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz, Pugh, Jonathan, Bargu, Banu, Geschiere, Peter, Humphrey, Caroline, Sanders, Todd, Das, Veena, Lemaitre, Julieta, Mehta, Uday S., Sanders, Elizabeth F.
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Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a political lexicon of commonsense words, ranging from democracy and revolution to knowledge and authority, from inequality and toleration to …
"The empirically rich and analytically provocative contributions to this volume focus on Africa and on the process through which commodities come into being. Commodifcation is shown to be a powerful tool towards understanding the modern world, especially South economies and Sout…
