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‘Mass Hysteria’ in the Wake of Decolonisation

    History, Political Science

    Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda

  • 2018

This chapter uses epidemics of ‘mass hysteria’ in East Africa in the early 1960s as a lens through which to explore the place of psychiatry in the context of political instability. It situates ‘mass

Inscribing Agency in Religious Change

In the wake of the cultural turn, there has been a gradual shift in the theorization of African religions, from the static structural-functionalist oriented models, towards the insertion of agency.