02532nam 2200505Ia 450 99624827310331620231109184629.00-674-28266-30-674-28265-5(CKB)2610000000000288(MH)000533343-1(SSID)ssj0000671119(PQKBManifestationID)11432477(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000671119(PQKBWorkID)10624982(PQKB)10765766(MiAaPQ)EBC4642442(EXLCZ)99261000000000028820060810h20031974 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSalem possessed [electronic resource]the social origins of witchcraft /Paul Boyer and Stephen NissenbaumCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press2003, c19741 online resource (xxi, 231 p. )ill., geneaological table, map ;"Twenty-sixth printiing 2003"--T.p. verso.0-674-78526-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.WitchcraftSocial aspectsMassachusettsSalemWitchcraftSocial aspects301.2/1Boyer Paul S65302Nissenbaum Stephen737443MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996248273103316Salem possessed2371531UNISAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress