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.The Catholic Church, Witch-hunts, and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda Heike Behrend ... Because there were too many deaths, funeral rites had been reduced and corpses were often buried hastily. ... various information campaigns to medicalize AIDS, witches and cannibals functioned as the dominant template, at least at the time of my research, to explain 78 individual death and suffering.
Title | : | Resurrecting Cannibals |
Author | : | Heike Behrend, Armin Linke |
Publisher | : | Boydell & Brewer Ltd - 2011 |
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