Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip / Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern.

By:

Stewart, Pamela J

Contributor(s):

Strathern, Andrew

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New departures in anthropologyPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511165862
9780511165863
0511184220
9780511184222
9780511616310
0511616317
9780511164736
0511164734
1280437316
9781280437311
9786610437313
6610437319
1107144019
9781107144019
0511312792
9780511312793

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip.DDC classification:

133.4/3 22

LOC classification:

GN475.5 .S84 2004eb

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71.57
73.58

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Contents:

Witchcraft and sorcery: modes of analysis -- Rumor and gossip: an overview -- Africa -- India -- New Guinea -- European and American witchcraft -- Rumors and violence -- Conclusions: conflict and cohesion.

Review: "This book combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumors and gossip. It does so in two ways. First, it shows how rumor and gossip are invariably important as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery. Second, it demonstrates the role of rumor 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, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka. They include discussions of witchcraft trials in England and Scotland 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 rumors of construction sacrifice in Indonesia."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.

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"This book combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumors and gossip. It does so in two ways. First, it shows how rumor and gossip are invariably important as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery. Second, it demonstrates the role of rumor 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, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka. They include discussions of witchcraft trials in England and Scotland 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 rumors of construction sacrifice in Indonesia."--Jacket.

English.

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