| Description |
273 pages : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Introduction: Outside All Reason - Magic, Sorcery and Epistemology in Anthropology / Bruce Kapferer -- Ch. 2. Beyond Vodou and Anthroposophy in the Dominican-Haitian Borderlands / Marit Brendbekken -- Ch. 3. The Smell of Death: Theft, Disgust and Ritual Practice in Central Lombok, Indonesia / Kari G. Telle -- Ch. 4. Sorcery, Modernity and the Constitutive Imaginary: Hybridising Continuities / Bruce Kapferer -- Ch. 5. The Sorcerer as an Absented Third Person: Formations of Fear and Anger in Vanuatu / Knut Rio -- Ch. 6. Sorcerous Technologies and Religious Innovation in Sri Lanka / Rohan Bastin -- Ch. 7. Maleficent Fetishes and the Sensual Order of the Uncanny in South-West Congo / Rene Devisch -- Ch. 8. Fantasy in Practice: Projection and Introjection, or the Witch and the Spirit-Medium / Michael Lambek --Ch. 9. The Discourse of 'Ritual Murder': Popular Reaction to Political Leaders in Botswana / Ornulf Gulbrandsen |
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Ch. 10. Strange Fruit: The South African Truth Commission and the Demonic Economies of Violence / Allen Feldman |
| Summary |
This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so the authors are concerned to break away from the dictates of a western externalist rationalist understanding of these phenomena without falling into the trap of mysticism. The articles address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Occultism -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Rationalism -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Author |
Kapferer, Bruce.
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| LC no. |
2002043661 |
| ISBN |
1571814183 paperback alkaline paper |
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