02553nam 2200565 a 450 991080813380332120170919024614.01-84545-849-410.1515/9781845458492(CKB)2550000000035195(EBL)710989(OCoLC)727649503(SSID)ssj0000539258(PQKBManifestationID)12193169(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539258(PQKBWorkID)10568053(PQKB)10960475(MiAaPQ)EBC710989(DE-B1597)636446(DE-B1597)9781845458492(EXLCZ)99255000000003519520100430d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMoral power[electronic resource] the magic of witchcraft /Koen StroekenNew York Berghahn Books20101 online resource (284 p.)Epistemologies of healing ;v. 9Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-659-8 1-84545-735-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction : the meaning of witchcraft -- 2. Why magic works : systemic healing -- 3. The dancer : gift and sacrifice -- 4. Four forms of social exchange -- 5. The witch : moral power and intrusion -- 6. Divination : a healing journey -- 7. The 'pure' reason of witch killing -- 8. Spirit possession : incarnating moral power -- 9. Magic, ritual and the senses.Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what the Sukuma from Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patient's recovery. Healers turn the table on the witch through rituals showing that the community and the ancestral spirits side with the victim. In contrast to biomedicine, their magic and divination introduce moral values that assess the state of the system and that remove the obstacles to what is taken as key: self-healing. The implied 'sensory shifts' and theEpistemologies of healing ;v. 9.WitchcraftWitchcraft.133.4/3133.43Stroeken Koen1192172MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808133803321Moral power3977862UNINA