Email from Ngeti : an ethnography of sorcery, redemption, and friendship in global Africa / / James H. Smith and Ngeti Mwadime |
Autore | Smith James H. <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.896/395 |
Soggetto topico |
Taita (African people) - Social life and customs
Taita (African people) - Religious life Witchcraft - Kenya - Taita Hills Ethnography |
Soggetto non controllato |
21st century international relations
africa african studies anthropology connectivity cultural anthropology cultural studies discussion books engaging ethnographic research friendship global africa globalization internet journal entries kenya lively local diners multiplicity of african life new research project pentecostal preachers prophets realistic recorded conversations redemption religion shared emails sorcery transnational witch finders young generation |
ISBN |
0-520-28112-8
0-520-95940-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Emails from the Field: An Introduction -- 2. English Makes You See Far -- 3. God Helps Those That Help Themselves -- 4. Good Ants, Bad Milk, and Ugly Deeds -- 5. The Power of Prayer -- 6. Works and Days -- 7. A Confrontation -- 8. Reflections -- Appendix of Names -- Notes -- Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791004303321 |
Smith James H. <1970->
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Email from Ngeti : an ethnography of sorcery, redemption, and friendship in global Africa / / James H. Smith and Ngeti Mwadime |
Autore | Smith James H. <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.896/395 |
Soggetto topico |
Taita (African people) - Social life and customs
Taita (African people) - Religious life Witchcraft - Kenya - Taita Hills Ethnography |
Soggetto non controllato |
21st century international relations
africa african studies anthropology connectivity cultural anthropology cultural studies discussion books engaging ethnographic research friendship global africa globalization internet journal entries kenya lively local diners multiplicity of african life new research project pentecostal preachers prophets realistic recorded conversations redemption religion shared emails sorcery transnational witch finders young generation |
ISBN |
0-520-28112-8
0-520-95940-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Emails from the Field: An Introduction -- 2. English Makes You See Far -- 3. God Helps Those That Help Themselves -- 4. Good Ants, Bad Milk, and Ugly Deeds -- 5. The Power of Prayer -- 6. Works and Days -- 7. A Confrontation -- 8. Reflections -- Appendix of Names -- Notes -- Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826573603321 |
Smith James H. <1970->
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Society of the dead [[electronic resource] ] : Quita Manaquita and Palo praise in Cuba / / Todd Ramón Ochoa |
Autore | Ochoa Todd Ramón <1969-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
Disciplina | 299.6/7 |
Soggetto topico |
Palo
Afro-Caribbean cults - Cuba Death - Religious aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
black atlantic comparative religion cuba cuban society cultural anthropologists discussion books ethnic tribal ethnographers ethnography havana kongo living and dead nonfiction palo personal account popular religion praise of the dead quita manaquita religious practices religious rituals religious scholars religious studies sorcery spiritual transformation tribal practices western perspective world religions |
ISBN |
1-282-77179-5
9786612771798 0-520-94792-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. The dead -- pt. 2. Palo society -- pt. 3. Prendas-Ngangas-Enquisos -- pt. 4. Palo craft. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785256703321 |
Ochoa Todd Ramón <1969->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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Talking it through : responses to sorcery and witchcraft beliefs and practices in Melanesia / / edited by Miranda Forsyth and Richard Eves |
Autore | Forsyth Miranda |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | ANU Press, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 pages) : illustrations, charts |
Disciplina | 133.43 |
Soggetto topico |
Witchcraft - Melanesia
Witchcraft - Papua New Guinea |
Soggetto non controllato |
development
witchcraft melanesia interventions sorcery Maleficium (sorcery) Papua New Guinea |
ISBN | 1925021572 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131513103321 |
Forsyth Miranda
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ANU Press, 2015 | ||
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Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic |
Autore | Montesano Marina |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (160 p.) |
Soggetto non controllato |
magic
divination religious history Thomas Hobbes Bavaria classical culture folklore Catholic reform dissolution of the monasteries animals Franciscan and Dominican friars Early Modern History friars demonic possession Trier Adriaan Koerbagh gynecology biblical exegesis Franconia monasticism witch-hunting in Hungary exorcism Italy convent cases Germany monks popular belief ritual magic Inquisition devil media counter-reformation inquisition Holy Office English reformation witch trials spells France witchcraft popular/vernacular magic in Hungary witchcraft and sorcery in Hungary Witchcraft familiars counter-reformation Italy treasure hunting heresy medicine priests love magic Spain Protestant demonology sorcery superstition witch-hunting in Debrecen/Bihar county Calvinist demonology in Hungary Jesuits censorship witch-hunts demonology |
ISBN | 3-03928-960-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910404081103321 |
Montesano Marina
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MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 | ||
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