Abstract:Thoroughly entangled in the legacies of colonial anthropology, witchcraft is often presented as evidence of primitiveness or superstition, or as a metaphor for reality. This paper examines a set of witchcraft objects held at the Livingstone Museum in Zambia, reading them against anthropological and political-theoretical efforts to treat witchcraft as a metaphor—for the African nation-state, capitalism, and ethnic violence, or for African ingenuity, modernity, and liberation. It argues instead that the materiality of witchcraft invites a reconceptualization of ideas of postcolonial agency and points to the limitations of liberatory politics organized around the pursuit of sovereignty.

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巫术政治与鲜血政治：在利文斯通博物馆解读主权与社会性

摘　要：巫术与殖民人类学的遗产纠缠不清，常常被视为原始性或迷信的证据，或作为对现实的隐喻。本文考察了在赞比亚利文斯通博物馆收藏的一组巫术物品，将它们解读为反对人类学和政治理论努力将巫术视为非洲民族国家、资本主义和种族暴力的隐喻，或非洲的独创性，现代性和解放性。相反，它认为巫术的物质性引发了对后殖民机构思想的重新概念化，并指出了围绕追求主权而组织的解放政治的局限性。