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Magic and warfare[electronic resource] :appearance and reality in contemporary African conflict and beyond /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	966.404
書名/作者:	Magic and warfare : appearance and reality in contemporary African conflict and beyond // Nathalie Wlodarczyk.
作者:	Wlodarczyk, Nathalie.
出版者:	New York City : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
面頁冊數:	xvi, 188 p. : : ill.
標題:	Military art and science - Sierra Leone.
標題:	Magic - Political aspects - Sierra Leone.
標題:	Shamans - Sierra Leone.
標題:	War and society - Sierra Leone.
標題:	Ethnic conflict - Case studies. - Africa
標題:	War - Case studies. - Religious aspects
標題:	Military art and science - Case studies. - Africa
標題:	Magic - Case studies. - Political aspects - Africa
標題:	War and society - Case studies. - Africa
標題:	Magie.
標題:	Krieg.
標題:	Social Science.
標題:	Sierra Leone - History - Civil War, 1991-2002
標題:	Afrika.
標題:	Sierra Leone / Bèurgerkrieg <1991-2002>
ISBN:	9780230103344
ISBN:	0230103340
書目註:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-176) and index.
內容註:	"Magic" in contemporary Africa -- Spirits in battle -- Thinking about practice in warfare -- Notes on the case study -- The Sierra Leone Civil War and civil defence -- Spiritual context as habitus and capital -- Creating magic soldiers : Kamajor mobilisation and initiation -- The Kamajors in battle : magic, tactics, and success -- Local practice and the wider world of warfare.
摘要、提要註:	This study explores the roles played by magic in contemporary African warfare, specifically through the case of Sierra Leone, to assess itsimpact on behaviour in conflict. In the last fifteen years, rituals designed to imbue people with supernatural power and make them immune to enemy fire have been seen on battlefields across Africa. Wlodarczyk argues that the use of magic in warfare can be understood, not as an illustration of how Africa's reality is qualitatively different from the West's, but as appropriate and logical. Here, a conceptual framework is suggested for analysing culturally alien practices more broadly, to inform approaches to civilian and military intervention not only in Africa but in conflict theatres around the world.
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Magic and warfare[electronic resource] :appearance and reality in contemporary African conflict and beyond /
Wlodarczyk, Nathalie.

Magic and warfareappearance and reality in contemporary African conflict and beyond /[electronic resource] :Nathalie Wlodarczyk. - 1st ed. - New York City :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xvi, 188 p. :ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-176) and index.

"Magic" in contemporary Africa -- Spirits in battle -- Thinking about practice in warfare -- Notes on the case study -- The Sierra Leone Civil War and civil defence -- Spiritual context as habitus and capital -- Creating magic soldiers : Kamajor mobilisation and initiation -- The Kamajors in battle : magic, tactics, and success -- Local practice and the wider world of warfare.

This study explores the roles played by magic in contemporary African warfare, specifically through the case of Sierra Leone, to assess itsimpact on behaviour in conflict. In the last fifteen years, rituals designed to imbue people with supernatural power and make them immune to enemy fire have been seen on battlefields across Africa. Wlodarczyk argues that the use of magic in warfare can be understood, not as an illustration of how Africa's reality is qualitatively different from the West's, but as appropriate and logical. Here, a conceptual framework is suggested for analysing culturally alien practices more broadly, to inform approaches to civilian and military intervention not only in Africa but in conflict theatres around the world.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230103344Subjects--Topical Terms:

375370
Military art and science
--Sierra Leone.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

375368
Sierra Leone
--History--Civil War, 1991-2002

LC Class. No.: DT516.826 / .W55 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 966.404

Magic and warfare[electronic resource] :appearance and reality in contemporary African conflict and beyond /
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