UID:
almafu_9959243208502883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-14401-9
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1-280-43731-6
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0-511-18422-0
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0-511-16586-2
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0-511-16393-2
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0-511-31279-2
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0-511-61631-7
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0-511-16473-4
Series Statement:
New departures in anthropology
Content:
Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumours and gossip. It shows how rumour and gossip are invariably important as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery, and demonstrates the role of rumour 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, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. They include discussions of witchcraft trials in Essex, England 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 rumours of construction sacrifice in Indonesia.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; ONE Witchcraft and Sorcery: Modes of Analysis; TWO Rumor and Gossip: An Overview; THREE Africa; FOUR India; FIVE New Guinea; SIX European and American Witchcraft; SEVEN Rumors and Violence; EIGHT Conclusions: Conflict and Cohesion; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-00473-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-80868-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511616310
