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Spellbound : inside West Africa's witch camps

Author: Karen Palmer
Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st Free Press hardcover edView all editions and formats
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Documents the author's visit to remote West African camps where men and women accused of practicing witchcraft are exiled to lives of poverty, describing the pervasiveness of superstitious belief systems through which even victims blame themselves.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Karen Palmer
ISBN: 9781439120507 1439120501
OCLC Number: 555639667
Description: 247 p. ; 23 cm.
Responsibility: Karen Palmer.

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A vivid account of African witchcraft and its relation to the culture and land.  Read more...
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"Fascinating and disturbing..." Canwest News Service

 
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