Beyond Rationalism

Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery
Herausgeber: Kapferer, Bruce

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, the articles explore the different social practices that are typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual, and address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the America's.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781571814180
• ISBN-10: 1571814183
• Artikelnr.: 24699764

Autorenporträt

Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Adjunct Professor at James Cook University and Honorary Professor at University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

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