Beschreibung:
The is the first ethnography of the Uganda Martyrs Guild (UMG), a lay movement of the Catholic Church, and its organized witch-hunts in the kingdom of Tooro, Western Uganda.
Introduction PART I EATING/BEING EATEN'Eating the King': Fragments of a History of Tooro KingshipEthnography of Eating: Mediating Food and Power'Eating God': Western Images of the Cannibal PART II TERROR AND HEALING IN TOOROCrisis and the Rise of Occult ForcesWitches and Cannibals in TooroThe Catholic Church and Religious Pluralism in TooroThe Uganda Martyrs GuildThe Guild's Crusades PART III THE CANNIBAL IN COLONIAL MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERSThe Making of a Christian King and 'Pagan' PersecutionsChristian Catechists and Missionaries in TooroMissionaries, the Eucharist and Cannibals in TooroResurrecting CannibalsMedical Spectacles of Resurrection and Colonial Mirroring