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Witchcraft confessions & accusations
- Title
- Witchcraft confessions & accusations / edited by Mary Douglas.
- Publication
- London, New York, Tavistock Publications [1970]
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- Description
- xxxviii, 387 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- A.S.A. monographs, 9
- Uniform Title
- A.S.A. monographs ; 9.
- Alternative Title
- Witchcraft confessions and accusations
- Subject
- Evans-Pritchard, E. E
- Witchcraft > Congresses
- Occultism
- occult sciences
- occultism
- Animals
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Indigenous peoples - Africa
- Magic and sorcery - Divination
- Religion - Rites - Cleansing
- Religions - Christianity
- Occultism
- Witchcraft
- Hekserij
- Macht
- Antropologische aspecten
- Witchcraft
- Sorcellerie > Congrès
- Africa
- Papua New Guinea (PNG)
- South America
- Australia
- Genre/Form
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Congress
- Note
- "Distributed in the U.S.A. by Barnes & Noble."
- Papers presented at the annual conference on the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth, King's College, Cambridge, 3-6 April, 1968, which was held in honor of E. E. Evans-Pritchard.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- Introduction : Thirty years after Witchcraft, oracles and magic / Mary Douglas -- The myth of Satan and his human servants / Norman Cohn -- Sorcery, demons, and the rise of Christianity from late antiquity into the Middle Ages / Peter Brown -- The relevance of social anthropology to the historical study of English witchcraft / Keith Thomas -- Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart Essex / Alan MacFarlane -- Chikanga : an African diviner with an international reputation / Alison Redmayne -- Instant millennium : the sociology of African witch-cleansing cults / R.G. Willis -- Witchcraft, economics, and the continuity of belief / Edwin Ardener -- Child-witches / Robert Brain -- Spiritual power in Central America : the Naguals of Chiapas / Julian Pitt-Rivers -- Legitimate and illegitimate aggression in a West African state / Esther Goody -- Factions and exclusions in two South American village systems / Peter Rivière -- Prestige, influence, and sorcery : a New Guinea example / Anthony Forge -- The situation of death : an aspect of Anuak philosophy / Godfrey Lienhardt -- A structural approach to witchcraft and spirit-possession / I.M. Lewis -- The evil eye in the Middle East / Brian Spooner -- A boundary to accusations / G.I. Jones -- Were-animals and the introverted witch / Malcolm Ruel -- Towards more open theoretical interpretations / T.O. Beidelman.
- ISBN
- 0422732001
- 9780422732000
- LCCN
- 78140585
- OCLC
- ocm00094954
- 94954
- SCSB-105051
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library