ISBN:
0511165862
,
0511184220
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0511616317
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0511164734
,
9780511184222
,
9780511616310
,
9780511164736
,
9780511165863
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 228 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
New departures in anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Stewart, Pamela J Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip
DDC:
133.4/3
Keywords:
Witchcraft Cross-cultural studies
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Gossip Cross-cultural studies
;
Social conflict Cross-cultural studies
;
Violence Cross-cultural studies
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Magick Studies
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Witchcraft & Wicca
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Gossip
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Social conflict
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Violence
;
Witchcraft
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Hexerei
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Klatsch
;
Hekserij
;
Tovenarij
;
Roddelen
;
Geruchten
;
Cross-cultural studies
Abstract:
"This book combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumors and gossip. It does so in two ways. First, it shows how rumor and gossip are invariably important as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery. Second, it demonstrates the role of rumor and gossip in the genesis of social and political violence, as in the case of both peasant rebellions and witch-hunts. Examples supporting the argument are drawn from Africa, Europe, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka. They include discussions of witchcraft trials in England and Scotland in the seventeenth century, witch-hunts and vampire narratives in colonial and contemporary Africa, millenarian movements in New Guinea, the Indian Mutiny in nineteenth-century Uttar Pradesh, and rumors of construction sacrifice in Indonesia."--Jacket
Abstract:
Witchcraft and sorcery: modes of analysis -- Rumor and gossip: an overview -- Africa -- India -- New Guinea -- European and American witchcraft -- Rumors and violence -- Conclusions: conflict and cohesion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511616310
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