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Record Nr.

UNISA996248273103316

Autore

Boyer Paul S

Titolo

Salem possessed [[electronic resource]] : the social origins of witchcraft / / Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2003, c1974

ISBN

0-674-28266-3

0-674-28265-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 231 p. ) : ill., geneaological table, map ;

Altri autori (Persone)

NissenbaumStephen

Disciplina

301.2/1

Soggetti

Witchcraft - Social aspects - Massachusetts - Salem

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Twenty-sixth printiing 2003"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue: What happened in 1692 -- 1692 : some new perspectives -- In quest of community, 1639-1687 -- Afflicted village, 1688-1697 -- Salem Town and Salem Village : the dynamics of factional conflict -- Two families : the Porters and the Putnams -- Joseph and his brothers : a story of the Putnam family -- Samuel Parris : a pilgrim in Bethlehem -- Witchcraft and social identity -- Epilogue: To the eighteenth century.

Sommario/riassunto

"The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web adn who in the end found themselves entangled in it."--Page 4 of cover.