Episode 61: ‘Holy Hustlers’, Freud, and African Wisdom Diviners




Africa Past & Present » Afripod show

Summary: Anthropologist Richard Werbner (University of Manchester) on the similarity between Freud and African wisdom diviners, ethnographic filmmaking in southern Africa, and the place of ‘Holy Hustlers’ (pentecostal churches and prophecy in Botswana) — the subject of his latest book — in the public sphere.