Reflections on Witchcraft, Danger, and Modernity Among the Tuareg
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This essay explores the varied ways so-called ‘witchcraft’ powers are implicated today in an African society, the Tuareg of the Republic of Niger. There is analysis of the interplay of these powers and dangers in case studies and vignettes, suggesting that recent assertions of ‘witch-like’ powers are grounded in moral discourse that addresses negotiated social relationships rather than linear temporal transformations from ‘tradition’ into ‘modernity’. A comparative analysis of these powers in diverse contexts reveals that witchcraft discourses are multiple and invite less a lineal temporal question of ‘tradition’ versus ‘modernity’, more a question of how moral discourses are reconfigured from cultural referents in intrinsically diverse repertoires.
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Il analyse l'interaction de ces pouvoirs et des dangers dans des études de cas et des évocations, suggérant que les récentes assertions de pouvoirs «assimilés à de la sorcellerie» trouvent leurs racines dans le discours moral traitant des relations sociales négociées plutôt que des transformations temporelles linéaires de la «tradition» vers la «modernité».Une analyse comparée de ces pouvoirs dans des contextes divers révèle que les discours de sorcellerie sont multiples et suscitent moins une question temporelle linéaire de «tradition» contre «modernité» que la question de savoir comment les discours moraux sont reconfigurés à partir de référents culturels dans des répertoires intrinsèquement divers.</p></abstract></profileDesc><revisionDesc><change when="2004-08">Published</change></revisionDesc></teiHeader></istex:fulltextTEI></fulltext><metadata><istex:metadataXml wicri:clean="corpus cambridge not found" wicri:toSee="no header"><istex:xmlDeclaration>version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"</istex:xmlDeclaration><istex:docType PUBLIC="-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v2.2 20060430//EN" URI="journalpublishing.dtd" name="istex:docType"></istex:docType><istex:document><article dtd-version="2.2" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AFR</journal-id><journal-title>Africa</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title>Africa</abbrev-journal-title><issn pub-type="ppub">0001-9720</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1750-0184</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Cambridge University Press</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Cambridge, UK</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3366/afr.2004.74.3.315</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pii">S0001972000092366</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">09236</article-id><title-group><article-title>Reflections on Witchcraft, Danger, and Modernity Among the Tuareg</article-title><alt-title alt-title-type="left-running">Reflections on the Tuareg</alt-title><alt-title alt-title-type="right-running">Reflections on the Tuareg</alt-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib><name><surname>Rasmussen</surname><given-names>Susan J.</given-names></name><bio><p>Susan Rasmussen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Houston. Her interests include ritual, gender, the life course, verbal art performance, and ethnographic analysis. She has conducted field research among the Tuareg of northern Niger for approximately twenty years, on topics of spirit possession, ageing, herbalists, and rural and urban smith/artisans. More recently, she has also worked among Tuareg in northern Mali and, briefly, in France. She has published several books and numerous articles on spirit possession, the life course, cultural memory and narratives, and healing specialists. 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There is analysis of the interplay of these powers and dangers in case studies and vignettes, suggesting that recent assertions of ‘witch-like’ powers are grounded in moral discourse that addresses negotiated social relationships rather than linear temporal transformations from ‘tradition’ into ‘modernity’. A comparative analysis of these powers in diverse contexts reveals that witchcraft discourses are multiple and invite less a lineal temporal question of ‘tradition’ versus ‘modernity’, more a question of how moral discourses are reconfigured from cultural referents in intrinsically diverse repertoires.</p></abstract><abstract abstract-type="translated" xml:lang="FR"><title>Résumé</title><p>Cet essai étudie les divers modes d'implication des dits pouvoirs de «sorcellerie» dans une société africaine, les Touaregs de la République du Niger. Il analyse l'interaction de ces pouvoirs et des dangers dans des études de cas et des évocations, suggérant que les récentes assertions de pouvoirs «assimilés à de la sorcellerie» trouvent leurs racines dans le discours moral traitant des relations sociales négociées plutôt que des transformations temporelles linéaires de la «tradition» vers la «modernité».Une analyse comparée de ces pouvoirs dans des contextes divers révèle que les discours de sorcellerie sont multiples et suscitent moins une question temporelle linéaire de «tradition» contre «modernité» que la question de savoir comment les discours moraux sont reconfigurés à partir de référents culturels dans des répertoires intrinsèquement divers.</p></abstract><counts><page-count count="26"></page-count></counts><custom-meta-wrap><custom-meta><meta-name>pdf</meta-name><meta-value>S0001972000092366a.pdf</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-wrap></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>REFERENCES</title><ref><citation id="ref001" citation-type="book"><name><surname>Ag Solimane</surname><given-names>Alhassane.</given-names></name> <year>1999</year>. <source>Bons et mauvais présages. 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She has conducted field research among the Tuareg of northern Niger for approximately twenty years, on topics of spirit possession, ageing, herbalists, and rural and urban smith/artisans. More recently, she has also worked among Tuareg in northern Mali and, briefly, in France. She has published several books and numerous articles on spirit possession, the life course, cultural memory and narratives, and healing specialists. Currently she is working on a book on herbal medicine, women, and issues of modes of thought in the anthropology of religion.</description></name><typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource><genre type="research-article" displayLabel="research-article" authority="ISTEX" authorityURI="https://content-type.data.istex.fr" valueURI="https://content-type.data.istex.fr/ark:/67375/XTP-1JC4F85T-7">research-article</genre><originInfo><publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher><place><placeTerm type="text">Cambridge, UK</placeTerm></place><dateIssued encoding="w3cdtf">2004-08</dateIssued><copyrightDate encoding="w3cdtf">2004</copyrightDate></originInfo><language><languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</languageTerm><languageTerm type="code" authority="rfc3066">en</languageTerm></language><abstract type="normal">This essay explores the varied ways so-called ‘witchcraft’ powers are implicated today in an African society, the Tuareg of the Republic of Niger. There is analysis of the interplay of these powers and dangers in case studies and vignettes, suggesting that recent assertions of ‘witch-like’ powers are grounded in moral discourse that addresses negotiated social relationships rather than linear temporal transformations from ‘tradition’ into ‘modernity’. A comparative analysis of these powers in diverse contexts reveals that witchcraft discourses are multiple and invite less a lineal temporal question of ‘tradition’ versus ‘modernity’, more a question of how moral discourses are reconfigured from cultural referents in intrinsically diverse repertoires.</abstract><abstract type="translated" lang="fr">Cet essai étudie les divers modes d'implication des dits pouvoirs de «sorcellerie» dans une société africaine, les Touaregs de la République du Niger. Il analyse l'interaction de ces pouvoirs et des dangers dans des études de cas et des évocations, suggérant que les récentes assertions de pouvoirs «assimilés à de la sorcellerie» trouvent leurs racines dans le discours moral traitant des relations sociales négociées plutôt que des transformations temporelles linéaires de la «tradition» vers la «modernité».Une analyse comparée de ces pouvoirs dans des contextes divers révèle que les discours de sorcellerie sont multiples et suscitent moins une question temporelle linéaire de «tradition» contre «modernité» que la question de savoir comment les discours moraux sont reconfigurés à partir de référents culturels dans des répertoires intrinsèquement divers.</abstract><relatedItem type="host"><titleInfo><title>Africa</title></titleInfo><titleInfo type="abbreviated"><title>Africa</title></titleInfo><genre type="journal" authority="ISTEX" authorityURI="https://publication-type.data.istex.fr" valueURI="https://publication-type.data.istex.fr/ark:/67375/JMC-0GLKJH51-B">journal</genre><identifier type="ISSN">0001-9720</identifier><identifier type="eISSN">1750-0184</identifier><identifier type="PublisherID">AFR</identifier><part><date>2004</date><detail type="volume"><caption>vol.</caption><number>74</number></detail><detail type="issue"><caption>no.</caption><number>3</number></detail><extent unit="pages"><start>315</start><end>340</end><total>26</total></extent></part></relatedItem><identifier type="istex">9B94556986DFBAC1DE04147E5E1E4C5DDD219FE8</identifier><identifier type="ark">ark:/67375/6GQ-JCRZ088G-R</identifier><identifier type="DOI">10.3366/afr.2004.74.3.315</identifier><identifier type="PII">S0001972000092366</identifier><identifier type="ArticleID">09236</identifier><accessCondition type="use and reproduction" contentType="copyright">Copyright © International African Institute 2004</accessCondition><recordInfo><recordContentSource authority="ISTEX" authorityURI="https://loaded-corpus.data.istex.fr" valueURI="https://loaded-corpus.data.istex.fr/ark:/67375/XBH-G3RCRD03-V">cambridge</recordContentSource><recordOrigin>Copyright © International African Institute 2004</recordOrigin></recordInfo></mods><json:item><extension>json</extension><original>false</original><mimetype>application/json</mimetype><uri>https://api.istex.fr/document/9B94556986DFBAC1DE04147E5E1E4C5DDD219FE8/metadata/json</uri></json:item></metadata><serie></serie></istex></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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