ABSTRACT
However, all avenues currently being explored by prospective Ankave leaders are based on the possession of particular imported knowledge, even if it is sometimes from just next door. The Ankave's own awareness of the violence of the police adds to their reluctance to see the wide world. The way the Ankave are compelled to renounce their 'satanic' customs and to behave 'well' is shrouded in latent violence. In all cases, it is only when people actually come to him to complain that an appointed or self-designated 'leader' is considered an acting komiti. All informants agree that another direct result of the ban on fighting was the intensification of the evil-doings of two categories of invisible figures: azia'o' (sorcerers) and ombi'. According to the Ankave, for fear of government sanction, people who were ready to wound or kill opponents with bows and arrows now launch more discrete invisible cannibalistic attacks.
