1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457750303321

Autore

Stewart Pamela J.

Titolo

Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip / / Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14401-9

1-280-43731-6

0-511-18422-0

0-511-16586-2

0-511-16393-2

0-511-31279-2

0-511-61631-7

0-511-16473-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

New departures in anthropology

Disciplina

133.4/3

Soggetti

Witchcraft

Gossip

Social conflict

Violence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; ONE Witchcraft and Sorcery: Modes of Analysis; TWO Rumor and Gossip: An Overview; THREE Africa; FOUR India; FIVE New Guinea; SIX European and American Witchcraft; SEVEN Rumors and Violence; EIGHT Conclusions: Conflict and Cohesion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumours and gossip. It shows how rumour and gossip are invariably important as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery, and demonstrates the role of rumour 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, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. They include discussions of witchcraft trials in Essex, England 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 rumours of construction sacrifice in Indonesia.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910893497703321

Titolo

Entdecktes Staats-Cabinet : darinnen so wohl das jus publicum, feudale u. ecclesiasticum, nebst d. Ceremoniel- u. Curialien-Wesen, als auch d. Kirchen- u. polit. Historie, samt d. Genealogie u. Literatur ... mit beygefügten Diplomatibus illustriret wird / von Johann Joachim Müllern

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jena, : Pohl, 1714-1717

ISSN

2192-9815

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Classificazione

2

Disciplina

940

230

340

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico