Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip /

Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip /

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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subject:	Witchcraft -- Cross-cultural studies. Gossip -- Cross-cultural studies. Social conflict -- Cross-cultural studies. Violence -- Cross-cultural studies. Gossip. Social conflict. Violence. Witchcraft. Cross-cultural studies.
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 9780511165863 0511184220 9780511184222 9780511616310 0511616317 9780511164736 0511164734 1280437316 9781280437311 9786610437313 6610437319 9780521004732 9780521808682 9780511163937 0511163932 0521808685 052100473X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index. Print version record.
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

Table of 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.