| Description |
xxv, 1 unnumbered page, 558 pages, 1 leaf : illustrations (including maps) XXXIV plates (including frontispiece) ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Witchcraft is an organic and hereditary phenomenon -- Witchcraft-substance is revealed by autopsy -- Other evil agents are associated with witchcraft -- The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events -- Action against witchcraft is socially controlled -- Sufferers from misfortunes seek for witches among their enemies -- Men bewitch others when they hate them -- Are witches conscious agents? -- Witchcraft and dreams -- How witch-doctors create a seance -- Zande faith in witch-doctors -- Training of a novice in the art of a witch-doctor -- The place of witch-doctors in Zande society -- The poison oracle in daily life -- Gathering of poison -- Consulting the poison orable -- Problems arising from consultation of the poison oracle -- Other Zande oracles -- Good magic and sorcery -- Magic and magicians -- Leechcraft -- An association for the practice of magic -- Witchcraft, oracles, and magic, in the situation of death |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Sudan.
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Magic -- Africa, Central.
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Magic.
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Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
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Religion -- Witchcraft
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Witchcraft -- Africa, Central.
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Witchcraft -- Central African Republic.
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Witchcraft -- Congo (Brazzaville)
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Witchcraft -- Sudan.
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Witchcraft.
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Oracles.
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Zande (African people)
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Zande (African people) -- Magic
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Zande (African people) -- Medicine.
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Zande (African people) -- Social life and customs.
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Zande -- Rites and ceremonies
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| Reading List |
ASS101 prescribed text 2024
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| LC no. |
38005545 |
| ISBN |
0198231032 |
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