Resurrecting Cannibals
The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda
1st Edition
Published on 20. October 2011
222 pages
978-1-84615-996-1 (ISBN)
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This is the first ethnography of the Uganda Martyrs Guild [UMG], a lay movement of the Catholic Church, and its organized witch-hunts in the kingdom of Tooro, Western Uganda.
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The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda
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Content
Introduction PART I EATING/BEING EATEN
'Eating the King': Fragments of a History of Tooro Kingship
Ethnography of Eating: Mediating Food and Power
'Eating God': Western Images of the Cannibal PART II TERROR AND HEALING IN TOORO
Crisis and the Rise of Occult Forces
Witches and Cannibals in Tooro
The Catholic Church and Religious Pluralism in Tooro
The Uganda Martyrs Guild
The Guild's Crusades PART III THE CANNIBAL IN COLONIAL MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS
The Making of a Christian King and 'Pagan' Persecutions
Christian Catechists and Missionaries in Tooro
Missionaries, the Eucharist and Cannibals in Tooro
Resurrecting Cannibals
Medical Spectacles of Resurrection and Colonial Mirroring
'Eating the King': Fragments of a History of Tooro Kingship
Ethnography of Eating: Mediating Food and Power
'Eating God': Western Images of the Cannibal PART II TERROR AND HEALING IN TOORO
Crisis and the Rise of Occult Forces
Witches and Cannibals in Tooro
The Catholic Church and Religious Pluralism in Tooro
The Uganda Martyrs Guild
The Guild's Crusades PART III THE CANNIBAL IN COLONIAL MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS
The Making of a Christian King and 'Pagan' Persecutions
Christian Catechists and Missionaries in Tooro
Missionaries, the Eucharist and Cannibals in Tooro
Resurrecting Cannibals
Medical Spectacles of Resurrection and Colonial Mirroring
