Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip / / Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Stewart Pamela J.
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| Titolo: |
Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip / / Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 133.4/3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Witchcraft |
| Gossip | |
| Social conflict | |
| Violence | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | StrathernAndrew |
| 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors & Gossip |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip |
| 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 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826235903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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New departures in anthropology.