The occult, the erotic and entrepreneurship: an analysis of oral accounts of ukuthwala, wealth-giving magic, sold by the Medicine Man Khotso Sethuntsa

This study examines the way in which the economic, the erotic and the supernatural are brought together in the practice of ukuthwala, the Xhosa term for a dangerous, powerful procedure for long-term wealth, widely believed to involve the ownership of a wealth-giving being1. An individual receives me...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Alternation (Durban) 2008-01, Vol.15 (1), p.338-366
1. Verfasser:	Wood, Felicity
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Economic, the erotic and the supernatural Mamlambo Practice of ukuthwala Xhosa term for a dangerous, powerful procedure for long-term wealth
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