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A Secret Shared: Field work and the Sinister in a West African Village

1997; Wiley; Volume: 12; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/can.1997.12.2.213

1548-1360

Eric Gable,

Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

Cultural AnthropologyVolume 12, Issue 2 p. 213-233 A Secret Shared: Field work and the Sinister in a West African Village Eric Gable, Eric Gable Mary Washington CollegeSearch for more papers by this author Eric Gable, Eric Gable Mary Washington CollegeSearch for more papers by this author First published: 07 January 2008 https://doi.org/10.1525/can.1997.12.2.213Citations: 40AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat References Aguiar, Armando de 1964 Guine minha Terra. Lisboa , Portugal : Agencia Geral dos Colonias. Apter, Andrew 1992 Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. Baxter, P. T. W. 1972 Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Some Suggestions on Why Witchcraft Accusations are Rare among East African Pastoralists. In The Allocation of Responsibility. Max Gluckman, ed. Pp. 163–191. Manchester , England : Manchester University Press. Bellman, Beryl L. 1984 The Language of Secrecy: Symbols and Metaphors in Poro Ritual. New Brunswick , NJ : Rutgers University Press. Bohannan, Laura 1964 Return to Laughter. Garden City , NY : Natural History Library. Bohannan, Paul 1960 Extra-Processual Events in Tiv Political Institutions. In Cultures and Societies of Africa. Simon Ottenberg and Phoebe Ottenberg, eds. Pp. 328–344. New York : Random House. Bohannan, Paul 1963 Social Anthropology. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. Carreira, Antonio 1947 Vida Social dos Manjacos. Lisboa , Portugal : Centro dos Estudos da Guine Portuguesa. Foster, George 1965 Peasant Society and the Image of the Limited Good. American Anthropologist 67: 293–315. Gable, Eric 1995 The Decolonization of Consciousness: Local Skeptics and the "Will to Be Modern" in a West African Village. American Ethnologist 22: 242–257. Gable, Eric 1996 Women, Ancestors, and Alterity among the Manjaco of Guinea-Bissau. Journal of Religion in Africa 26(2): 114–131. Gottlieb, Alma 1992 Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought. Bloomington : Indiana University Press. Gottlieb, Alma, and Philip Graham 1993 Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa. New York : Crown Publishers. Hallen, B., and J. O. Sodipo 1986 Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy. London : Ethnographica. Linares, Olga F. 1981 From Tidal Swamp to Inland Valley: On the Social Organization of Wet-Rice Cultivation Among the Diola of Senegal. Africa 51: 555–592. Linares, Olga F. 1992 Power, Prayer and Production: The Jola of Casamance Senegal. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Murphy, William 1980 Secret Knowledge as Property and Power in Kpelle Society: Elders versus Youth. Africa 50: 193–207. Murphy, William 1990 Creating the Appearance of Consensus in Mende Political Discourse. American Anthropologist 92: 24–41. Passin, Herbert 1942 Tarahumara Prevarication: A Problem in Field Method. American Anthropologist 44: 235–247. Piot, Charles D. 1993 Secrecy, Ambiguity, and the Everyday in Kabre Culture. American Anthropologist 95(2): 353–370. Schloss, Marc 1988 The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power and Gender in Ehing Social Life. Tucson : University of Arizona Press. Scott, James C. 1985 Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven , CT : Yale University Press. Simmons, William 1971 Eyes of the Night: Witchcraft Among a Senegalese People. Boston : Little, Brown. Snyder, Francis 1981 Capitalism and Legal Change. New York : Academic Books. Taussig, Michael T. 1980 The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. Traube, Elizabeth G. 1986 Cosmology and Social Life: Ritual Exchange Among the Mambai of East Timor. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. Uchendu, Victor 1965 The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. Citing Literature Volume12, Issue2May 1997Pages 213-233 ReferencesRelatedInformation