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Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip /

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Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip /

[Book]

Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

2004.

1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) :

illustrations

New departures in anthropology

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.

Witchcraft and sorcery: modes of analysis -- Rumor and gossip: an overview -- Africa -- India -- New Guinea -- European and American witchcraft -- Rumors and violence -- Conclusions: conflict and cohesion.

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"This book combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumors and gossip. It does so in two ways. First, it shows how rumor and gossip are invariably important as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery. Second, it demonstrates the role of rumor 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, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka. They include discussions of witchcraft trials in England and Scotland 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 rumors of construction sacrifice in Indonesia."--Jacket.

Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip.

052100473X

Gossip, Cross-cultural studies.

Social conflict, Cross-cultural studies.

Violence, Cross-cultural studies.

Witchcraft, Cross-cultural studies.

Conflits sociaux, Études transculturelles.

Potins, Études transculturelles.

Sorcellerie, Études transculturelles.

Violence, Études transculturelles.

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT-- Magick Studies.

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT-- Witchcraft & Wicca.

Geruchten.

Gossip.

Hekserij.

Hexerei

Klatsch

Kulturvergleich

Roddelen.

Social conflict.

Tovenarij.

Violence.

Witchcraft.

JBKC

OCC-- 026000

OCC-- 028000

Stewart, Pamela J.

Strathern, Andrew.

20201207190920.0

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