TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stewart,Pamela J.
AU  - Strathern,Andrew
TI  - Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip
T2  - New departures in anthropology
SN  - 0511165862
AV  - GN475.5 .S84 2004eb
U1  - 133.4/3 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Witchcraft
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Gossip
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - Violence
KW  - Sorcellerie
KW  - Études transculturelles
KW  - Potins
KW  - Conflits sociaux
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Magick Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Witchcraft & Wicca
KW  - fast
KW  - Hexerei
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kulturvergleich
KW  - Klatsch
KW  - Hekserij
KW  - gtt
KW  - Tovenarij
KW  - Roddelen
KW  - Geruchten
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index; 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
N2  - "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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