ISBN:
9781315018041
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1315018047
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9781136551451
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113655145X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (320 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography
Parallel Title:
Print version Witchcraft and sorcery in East Africa
DDC:
133.4309676
Keywords:
Witchcraft Africa, East
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Witchcraft
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Witchcraft
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Sorcellerie Afrique orientale
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Africa, East
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Witchcraft
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Parapsychology ; General
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Africa, East
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Containing ten essays by anthropologists on the beliefs and practices associated with witches and sorcerers in Eastern Africa, the chapters in this book are all based on field research and new information which is studied within its wider social context
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword / E. E. Evans-Pritchard-- Introduction / John Middleton and E. H. Winter -- -- Sorcery in Bunyoro / John Beattie -- -- Witchcraft in Ukaguru / T. O. Beidelman -- -- Mandari Witchcraft / Jean Buxton -- -- Techniques of Sorcery Control in Central Africa / Mary Douglas -- -- Some Structural Aspects of Mbugwe Witchcraft / Robert F. Gray -- - Nandi Witchcraft / G. W. B. Huntingford -- - Witchcraft in Bugisu / Jean La Fontaine -- - Witchcraft and Sorcery in a Gusii community / Robert A. LeVine -- - Witchcraft and Sorcery in Lugbara / John Middleton -- - The Enemy Within: Amba Witchcraft and Sociological Theory / E. H. Winter.
Note:
Originally published: London: Routledge and Paul, 1963. - Includes bibliographical references. - Print version record
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Originally published: London: Routledge and Paul, 1963
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