Beyond rationalism : rethinking magic, witchcraft, and sorcery /: rethinking magic, witchcraft, and sorcery. (©2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bruce Kapferer.
• Other Names: Kapferer, Bruce
• Contents: Introduction: Outside All Reason - Magic, Sorcery and Epistemology in Anthropology; B. Kapferer Chapter 1. Anthroposophy and Voodoo in Dominican-Haitian Borderlands; M. Brendbekken Chapter 2. The Smell of Death: Theft, Disgust and Ritual Practice in Central Lombok, Indonesia; K.G. Telle Chapter 3. Sorcery, Modernity and the Constitutive Imaginary: Hybridising Continuities; B. Kapferer Chapter 4. The Sorcerer as the Absented Third Person: Formations of Fear and Anger in Vanuatu; K. Rio Chapter 5. Sorcerous Technologies and Religious Innovation in Sri Lanka; R. Bastin Chapter 6. Maleficent Fetishes and the Sensual Order of the Uncanny in South West Congo; R. Devisch Chapter 7. Fantasy in Practice: Projection and Ontrojection, or the Witch and the Spirit-Medium; M. Lambek Chapter 8. The Discourse of 'Ritual Murder': Popular Reaction to Political Leaders in Botswana; O. Gulbrandsen Chapter 9. Strange Fruit: The South African Truth Commission and Demonic Economies of Violence; A. Feldman Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2003
• Copyright Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 273 pages, [8] pages of illustrations), color illustrations
• Subjects: 306.4; Witchcraft -- Cross-cultural studies; Occultism -- Cross-cultural studies; Rationalism -- Cross-cultural studies; Sorcellerie -- Études transculturelles; Occultisme -- Études transculturelles; Rationalisme -- Études transculturelles; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; RELIGION -- General; Occultism; Rationalism; Witchcraft; Magie; Hekserij; Electronic books; Cross-cultural studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857458551; 0857458558
• Related ISBNs: 1571814183; 9781571814180
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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