Witchcraft Dialogues (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
344
Utgivningsdatum
2002-02-01
Upplaga
1
Förlag
Ohio University Press
Medarbetare
Ciekawy, Diane (contributions)
Dimensioner
214 x 141 x 27 mm
Vikt
459 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780896802209

Witchcraft Dialogues

Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges

av George Clement Bond, Diane M Ciekawy
Häftad,  Engelska, 2002-02-01
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Witchcraft Dialogues analyzes the complex manner in which human beings construct, experience, and think about the occult. It brings together anthropologists, philosophers, and sociologists, from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, to engage the metaphysical properties of witchcraft and sorcery and to explore their manifestations in peoples lived experiences. While many Africanist scholars shun the analysis of witchcraft as an appropriate domain of investigation, the experiences, thoughts, activities, and powers that witchcraft encompasses have become increasingly the source of interest and debate. Concepts of witchcraft and the phenomena to which they are applied express something fundamental to the human condition and have their equation in the logic of other human practices such as racism and its various crafts. Thus, the focus on witchcraft is not just a concern with the occult, but a manifestation of the convergence of interest in mediating and transcending disciplinary domains. The contributors to this volume embrace the challenge of exploring witchcraft as a mode of experiencing and explaining human circumstances as well as confronting the limitations of their own intellectual traditions and paradigms. The range of their explorations takes us in new directions, making use not only of their academic training but also of their personal experiences, to reframe the conceptual terrain of the occult and the epistemological orientations of their various academic fields of inquiry.
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George Clement Bond was a professor of anthropology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is the author of The Politics of Change in a Zambian Community and co-editor of African Christianity, Social Construction of the Past, and AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean. Diane M. Ciekawy is associate professor of anthropology at Ohio University. She publishes in the areas of religion, law, politics, and human rights and is completing an ethnography of Kajiwe's witchcraft-finding movement in Kenya.

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