Beyond rationalism : rethinking magic, witchcraft, and sorcery / / edited by Bruce Kapferer

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2003]; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4
• Soggetto topico: Witchcraft; Occultism; Rationalism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): KapfererBruce
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Beyond Vodou and Anthroposophy in the Dominican-Haitian Boarderlands; Chapter 3: The Smell of Death: Theft, Disgust, and Ritual Practice in Central Lombok, Indonesia; Chapter 4: Sorcery, Modernity and the Constitutive Imaginary: Hybridising Continuities; Chapter 5: The Sorcerer as an Absented Third Person: Formations of Fear and Anger in Vanuatu; Chapter 6: Sorcerous Technologies and Religious Innovation in Sri Lanka; Chapter 7: Maleficent Fetishes and the Sensual Order of the Uncanny in South-West Congo ; Chapter 8: Fantasy in Practice: Projection and Introjection, or the Witch and the Spirit-MediumChapter 9: The Discourse of 'Ritual Murder': Popular Reaction to Political Leaders in Botswana; Chapter 10: Strange Fruit: The South African Truth Commission and the Demonic Economies of Violence; Contributors; Indexes
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond rationalism
• ISBN: 1-57181-418-3; 0-85745-855-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910493711603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II