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Author Bubandt, Nils, author

Title The empty seashell : witchcraft and doubt on an Indonesian island / Nils Bubandt
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2014]

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Contents Introduction : the shell of the nautilus -- Witchcraft, doubt, and aporia -- The origins of witchcraft and the doubts of tradition -- Hopes, conversion, and millennial politics -- Christianity and deception -- The viscerality of witchcraft and the corporeality of the world -- New Order modern -- Subjectivity, exchange, opacity -- Technology, money, and the futures of witchcraft
Summary "Explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Witchcraft -- Indonesia -- Halmahera
Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Halmahera
Belief and doubt.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Belief and doubt
Ethnology
Religion
Witchcraft
Religionsethnologie
Christianisierung
Magie
Ahnenkult
Hexerei
Mythologie
Adat
Geisterglaube
Moderne
Orde Baru
Sozialer Austausch
Buli Halmahera
SUBJECT Halmahera (Indonesia) -- Religion
Subject Indonesia -- Halmahera
Indonesien
Halmahera
Maluku.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019725631
ISBN 9780801471964
0801471966
9780801471971
0801471974