ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Granary, Bride Price, Structural Violence
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Concepts de nition, relevance to class and example of it (post your answers under the concept(s) and reading you chose below) Ashforth uses this concept but never de nes it, although it is really important to his analysis. Spiritual insecurity for ashforth is the condition of danger, doubt, and fear arising from exposure to the action of unseen forces bent upon causing harm (ashforth 1998:63). This concept also raises important questions like why is post-apartheid in south africa so full of witches? . Ashforth believes that much of the social conditions that lie under inequality in south africa and increase in witchcraft talk or fear of witchcraft are linked. He also thinks that economic impoverishment and continuing problems of the failures of the promise of democracy have given rise to spiritual insecurity. What happened in south africa was the creation of what wacquant would call hyperghetto .
