Witchcraft, Power and Politics: Exploring the Occult in the South African LowveldThis is an extraordinary account of witchcraft and witch hunting in the modern world. A powerful ethnographic study of witch hunting in 1980s South Africa a period of rapid social change this book demonstrates the extent to which witchcraft must be seen, not as a residue of 'traditional' culture but as part of a complex social drama which is deeply embedded in contemporary political and economic processes. Isak Niehaus provides the context for this