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20. Rumour and Innuendo Witchcraft and Women’s Power in the ‘Colonised’ State

verfasst von : Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes, Clare Buswell

Erschienen in: Balancing Individualism and Collectivism

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Women’s voices and actions resonate throughout the African colonial archives, on which this research is based, ever evolving, articulating and resonating in contemporary manifestations of spirituality. This article applies the inside/outsider analogy employed by Trinh Minh Ha in the analysis of both colonial and postcolonial gender relations and demonstrate that irrespective of the ‘location’ of women as the ‘native other’ they were able to have a voice and command respect (Minh Ha 1997). The marginalization of women first by the colonial western outsiders and second by the, usually, male insiders of their ethnic group and cultural communities leaves them as Minh Ha would say ‘not quite insiders and not quite outsiders’(Minh Ha 1997: p. 418). Not voiceless, not powerless but located outside of hub of institutional power women were able to subvert, challenge and resist.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Precarious Liaisons: Gender, Moral Authority and Marriage in Colonial Kenya

Nächstes Kapitel Demoscopio: The Demosensual [R]evolutionary Eutopia

Research of the colonial records relating to east Africa and Kenya in particular was undertaken at Rhodes House, Oxford and the Seerley library, Cambridge University and the Public Records Office, London.

In a trusted position in the resistance, she was given the task of taking someone’s life unable to do that she chose to take her own.

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The Laibon were deported out of the Kipsigis land unit shortly after the arrival of the British. Peristiany J. G., Op. cit. pp. 225–227.

Mss. Afr. s. 742/2 Punishment of a Witchdoctor by Death in Meru—1933. Cites a case in Machakos, where 60 people were convicted in the High Court of Kenya for beating to death a witch. These 60 people constituted the members of her family, and her neighbours. p. 1.

Ibid. p. 476.

Ibid. p. 483.

Petero Wabwire s/o Malemo, the appellant. East Africa Law Reports, Vol. 16. 1949. p. 131.

KNA/370. Annual Report Fort Hall/28. Jan. 1949. Coutts W. F. pp. 1–2. Women’s actions included rioting and making use of sexual insults, over the use of their labour to work on soil conservation projects. Women deeply resented as it took their labour away from their own sources of income and power. These conservation projects were viewed by women as a collaboration between the male elders of their communities and the administration to undermine women’s influence.

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Titel: Rumour and Innuendo Witchcraft and Women’s Power in the ‘Colonised’ State
verfasst von: Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes
Clare Buswell
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Balancing Individualism and Collectivism
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-58013-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-58014-2

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58014-2_20

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