Witchcraft and a life in the new South Africa / Isak Niehaus.

"Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa reconstructs the biography of an ordinary South African, Jimmy Mohale. Born in 1964, Jimmy came of age in rural South Africa during apartheid, then studied at university and worked as a teacher during the anti-apartheid struggle. In 2005, Jimmy died from an undiagnosed sickness, probably related to AIDS. Jimmy gradually came to see the unanticipated misfortune he experienced as a result of his father's witchcraft and sought remedies from diviners rather than from biomedical doctors. This study casts new light on scholarly understandings of the connections between South African politics, witchcraft, and the AIDS pandemic"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa; THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN LIBRARY; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps and Figures; Notes on Currency; Central Characters; Preface; 1 Introduction; Theoretical Concerns; Impalahoek: The Reconfiguration of Witchcraft; Capturing Witchcraft Biographically; How This Biography Is Organised; 2 Early Experiences, Initial Suspicions; From Subsistence Agriculture to Wage Labour; Luckson's Descendants; The Mohale Household, 196481; Household Fission (1981); Being Dispersed; Schooling; Learning about Witchcraft; 3 Becoming a Man.

Love, Circumcision, and MarriageUniversity of the North and the AntiApartheid Struggle, 198594; Returning to a Transformed Bushbuckridge; Moletele High School, 19903; Tlasede High School, 19932005; Joining the African National Congress (ANC); Redeployment; Arrested Development?; 4 Then I Did Not Believe'; Rumours of Luckson Mogale's Witchcraft; Malebo Mosoma's Death, October 1999; Diana Khubayi's Death, October 1999; Enios Mosoma, January 2000; Misfortunes in Ngwa Ngobeni's Household; The Mohale Mpogo, 16 December 2001; Defending His Father; 5 My Second Initiation'; Cars; Marriage and Love.

Residing with His Affines, 19992002Iris; The Small Room in Tsakani, 20023; Leaving Lerato, 20035; Jimmys Political Comeback; Problems with Iris; 6 'I See Things Differently Now'; Ngwa Ngobenis Illness and Duduziles Death, 2002; Visiting Dr Sugar; I See Things Differently Now'; Being Fortified in Phalaborwa; 7 Seeking Revenge; Contesting the Truth, 2004; Rebecca Mohales Sickness; Convincing Henry Mohale; The Horrible Journey to Bochum; Taking Revenge; Andrew Mohale: Lucksons Next Victim?; Andrews Funeral; The Dissipation of Revenge; 8 AIDS and Oedipus.

Real or Fictitious AIDS? The Deaths at Marasheas TavernDisease, Stigma, and Silence; Encountering Marasheas Witches; Iriss Sickness; Jimmys Second Pneumonia Attack?; Luckson Attacked; Our Last Meeting; 9 (Re)constructing an Ideal Life; The Night Vigil and Funeral; The Graveyard; On the Real and the Ideal; 10 Last Words; Witchcraft and PostApartheid; Blaming the Father; Relativism and Critical Engagement; Appendices; References; Index.

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