Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique, by Harry G. West. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxviii, 362 pp. $25.00 US (paper).
This book is a study by Harry G. West, a social anthropologist from the University of London, on the meaning and importance of sorcery on the Mueda plateau in Mozambique. The time frame covers the pre-colonial time and especially the colonial and post-colonial periods. The sources used are interviews and participatory observations, and fieldwork that has been pursued at several occasions from 1993 to 2004. No archives (for instance Portuguese ones) have been consulted.
The study focuses on the conditions of governance and power on the local level. West argues that African "languages of power" should be in focus instead of Western ideas and …
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