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# In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger

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The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.

Review: Interesting Book - Good book, gives you a (somewhat) insider experiences of Songhay culture and Sorcery. I enjoyed it. I guess he also has another book that is like a prequel to this one and I guess reading this one is good after that one, I don't know what it's called though.
Review: Great anthropology book - Needed for anthropology class. Was great reading even though it was required reading. It was well-written and kept up my interest.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #18,469 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #11 in Native American Demographic Studies #18 in General Anthropology #28 in Cultural Anthropology (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting Book
*by D***N on April 7, 2013*

Good book, gives you a (somewhat) insider experiences of Songhay culture and Sorcery. I enjoyed it. I guess he also has another book that is like a prequel to this one and I guess reading this one is good after that one, I don't know what it's called though.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great anthropology book
*by R***K on November 24, 2012*

Needed for anthropology class. Was great reading even though it was required reading. It was well-written and kept up my interest.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ More like a thriller than an ethnography
*by S***E on March 15, 2015*

As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, I had many unanswered questions about the Songhay's pre-Islamic beliefs by the time I got home. A lot of what I saw over there really makes more sense now that I've read this book (particularly what supposedly happens during possession dances and what their purpose is). Stoller does a great job turning the information into a narrative with dialogue and character development that really grabs the reader's attention and sustains it, making it read more like a thriller than an ethnography (which is not a bad thing as ethnographies can be very dry). Thus, you don't have to be an anthropologist to enjoy this book. My bias might be that I lived among Songhay for two years and appreciated many of his references in a way someone else might overlook. My only gripe is that he seems to focus his effort so much in making the book enjoyable that he neglects a lot of the raw information I was looking for when I purchased this book. Fortunately, Stoller also wrote many other books on the Songhay which I thought did a much better job at explaining the whats and the whys, particularly in the history and origins of traditional "animism."

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