Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip /

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Author / Creator:Stewart, Pamela J.
Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:New departures in anthropology
New departures in anthropology.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11812315
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Other authors / contributors:Strathern, Andrew.
ISBN:0511165862
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.
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Summary:"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.
Other form:Print version: Stewart, Pamela J. Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 0521808685 052100473X