Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip

Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip

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Stewart, Pamela J.
Cambridge University Press
EAN: 9780521004732
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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.
EAN 9780521004732
ISBN 052100473X
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication date November 24, 2003
Pages 248
Language English
Dimensions 235 x 158 x 19
Country United Kingdom
Authors Stewart, Pamela J.; Strathern, Andrew
Illustrations 6 Line drawings, unspecified
Series New Departures in Anthropology