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US: Free Press, 2012. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In this empathetic account, Palmer looks at witchcraft, witch doctors, and superstition in present-day Ghana and examines why some believe in them completely, while others do not, positing that belief might have been extenuated through Africa's lack of wealth, education, healthcare, and women's rights. The less somebody understands economics, medicine, science, philosophy or politics, Palmer suggests, the more he or she could credit certain things to the supernatural. The author takes us inside remote encampments where women thought to be witches are isolated and punished. There, they must live on their own, away from the comforts of family, and sometimes beg for work. She recounts the experiences of women like Ayishetu Bugre, who had been accused of witchcraft by a jealous, drunken brother-in-law. Her…
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- Title Spellbound: Inside West Africa's Witch Camps
- Author Karen Palmer
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 247
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Free Press, New York
- Date 2010-10
- ISBN 9781439120507 / 1439120501
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.67 x 5.82 x 0.92 in (22.02 x 14.78 x 2.34 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Witchcraft - Africa, West
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010008675
- Dewey Decimal Code 133.430
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