2 Ordinary Sorcery: The First Four Rooms of Uchawi’s House

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgements xvii
6. List of Abbreviations xx
7. Maps xxi
8. Introduction 1
9. PART I: POWER
10. 1 Kichawi Dogs and Colonial Thinking 25
11. 2 Ordinary Sorcery: The First Four Rooms of Uchawi’s House 46
12. 3 ‘We Come to You Only as a Test’: Uganga in Uchawi 67
13. 4 The Sixth and Seventh Rooms: From Righteous Flight to Giving Lives in Turn 87
14. 5 Uchawi as it Was: Power, Humour, Agony 114
15. PART II: CRISIS
16. 6 Revolution: Political Change and Mystical Authority 139
17. 7 The Poetics of Loss: Hunger, Commodification and the Withdrawal of Magic Books 169
18. PART III: TRANSFORMATIONS
19. 8 Emergenc(i)es: Politics and the Unseen 201
20. 9 Islamic Revival, Dividing Jinns and the New Uchawi 227
21. Conclusion: Locating Pemba Today 249
22. References 263
23. Index 281
24. Previously published titles in the series 287