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Understanding witchcraft and sorcery in Southeast Asia / edited by C.W. Watson and Roy Ellen.

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Understanding witchcraft and sorcery in Southeast Asia / edited by C.W. Watson and Roy Ellen.
Publication
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Watson, C. W.
  • Ellen, R. F., 1947-
  • Canterbury International Symposium on Southeast Asian Studies (1st : 1989 : University of Kent)
Description
viii, 222 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Witchcraft > Southeast Asia
  • Magic > Southeast Asia
Note
  • Rev. papers presented at the First Canterbury International Symposium on Southeast Asian Studies, held at the University of Kent, Sept. 25-28, 1989.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
The relativity of magical malevolence in urban Thailand / Louis Golomb -- Wichcraft, sorcery, fortune, and misfortune among Lisu highlanders of northern Thailand / E. Paul Durrenberger -- Witches, fortune, and misfortune among the Shan in northwestern Thailand / Nicola Tannenbaum -- Anger, anxiety, and sorcery / Roy Ellen -- Social and symbolic aspects of the witch among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia / Gregory Forth -- Observations on the practice of sorcery in Java / Ronny Nitibaskara -- Sorcery and the law in modern Indonesia / Karen Portier -- Knowledge, power, and personal misfortune in a Malay context / Michael G. Peletz -- Return to sender / John R. Bowen -- Perceptions from within / C.W. Watson.
ISBN
0824815157 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^93005293^
OCLC
28338230
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library