Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits. Heike Behrend

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      HEIKE BEHREND

       Translated by Mitch Cohen

      James Currey OXFORD

      Fountain Publishers KAMPALA

      EAEP NAIROBI

      Ohio University Press ATHENS

      eBook edition published 2016

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      Originally published as

      Behrend, Heike: Alice und die Geister: Krieg im Norden Uganda Munich: Trickster, 1993 (Uroboros; Vol. 4)

      Translated with the financial support of Inter Nationes

      ISBN 9970-02-197-4 (Fountain Publishers Paper)

       British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Behrend, Heike

      Alive & the spirits : war in northern Uganda, 1985-97. -

      (Eastern African Studies)

      1. Acoli (African people) - Religion 2. Religion and politics - Uganda 3. Spiritualism - Uganda. 4. Uganda - History - 1979 - I. Title

      299.6’9761

      ISBN 0-85255-248-3 (James Currey Cloth)

      ISBN 0-85255-247-5 (James Currey Paper)

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress

      ISBN 0-8214-1310-4 (Ohio University Press Cloth)

      ISBN 0-8214-1311-2 (Ohio University Press Paper)

      Typeset in 10/11pt Baskerville

      by Long House Publishing Services, Cumbria, UK

      Printed in Great Britain

      by Villiers Publications, London N3

      ISBN 978-1-78204-784-1 (James Currey eISBN)

      ISBN 978-0-8214-4570-9 (Ohio University Press eISBN)

       For Dan Mudoola

       Contents

       Figures & Tables

       Preface

      JOHN MIDDLETON

       Foreword

       1. The Troubles of an Anthropologist

       2. The History & Ethnogenesis of the Acholi

       3. The Crisis

       4. The War of the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces

       5. The Holy Spirit Movement as a Regional Cult

       6. The March on Kampala

       7. The History of Religions in Acholi

       8. Alice & the Spirits

       9. The Texts of the Holy Spirit Movement

       10. The War in Acholi, 1987–96

       Epilogue

       Bibliography

       Index

       Figures & Tables

      FIGURES

       5.1. The Temple of Opit

       9.1. Exercise Book used by the HSMF

       9.2. Wrong Element’s stamp

       9.3. Head controlists meeting

       9.4. Tactical instructions

      TABLES

       9.1. Holy Spirit Mobile Forces Operation Unit 1987, C. Company

       9.2. Passages from the Acholi Bible

       Preface

      JOHN MIDDLETON

      On 2 January 1985, an Acholi woman from northern Uganda named Alice Auma was possessed by an alien Christian spirit known as Lakwena (‘Messenger’ in Acholi), and became known as Alice Lakwena. From this СКАЧАТЬ