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Witchcraft and sorcery in East Africa / John Beattie [and others] Edited by John Middleton and E.H. Winter ; foreword by E.E. Evans-Pritchard. - 1 online resource (320 pages) - Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography . - Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography. .

Originally published: London: Routledge and Paul, 1963.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / E.E. Evans-Pritchard ---- Introduction / John Middleton and E.H. Winter ---- Sorcery in Bunyoro / John Beattie ---- Witchcraft in Ukaguru / T.O. Beidelman ---- Mandari Witchcraft / Jean Buxton ---- Techniques of Sorcery Control in Central Africa / Mary Douglas ---- Some Structural Aspects of Mbugwe Witchcraft / Robert F. Gray --- Nandi Witchcraft / G.W.B. Huntingford --- Witchcraft in Bugisu / Jean La Fontaine --- Witchcraft and Sorcery in a Gusii community / Robert A. LeVine --- Witchcraft and Sorcery in Lugbara / John Middleton --- The Enemy Within: Amba Witchcraft and Sociological Theory / E.H. Winter.

Containing ten essays by anthropologists on the beliefs and practices associated with witches and sorcerers in Eastern Africa, the chapters in this book are all based on field research and new information which is studied within its wider social context.


English.

ISBN: 9781136551451 (electronic bk.) 113655145X (electronic bk.) 9781315018041 (e-book ; PDF) 1315018047 (e-book ; PDF) 0415852137 9780415852135 1136551522 9781136551529 (set)

Standard No.: 10.4324/9781315018041 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Witchcraft--Africa, East.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Parapsychology--General.
Witchcraft.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa, East.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GN475.8 / .W58 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 133.4309676