| Description |
1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography |
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Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Originally published: London: Routledge and Paul, 1963 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- Africa, East
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
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Witchcraft
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Africa, East
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Middleton, John, 1921-2009, editor.
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Winter, E. H. (Edward Henry), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781136551451 |
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113655145X |
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9781315018041 |
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1315018047 |
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0415852137 |
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9780415852135 |
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1136551522 |
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9781136551529 |
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