Jeanne Favret-Saada

Deadly Words

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines witchcraft in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. The ethnographer delves into what it means to be a witch and to be bewitched, or 'caught' in a series of misfortunes. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the witch's spell and the struggle is eventually fatal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780521297875
• ISBN-10: 0521297877
• Artikelnr.: 29157847

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. There Must Be a Subject
Section 1. The Way Things Are Said: 1. The mirror-image of an academic
2. Words spoken with insistence
3. When words wage war
Section 2. Between 'Caught' and Catching: 1. Those who haven't been caught can't talk about it
2. A name added to a position
3. Taking one's distances from whom (or what)?
Section 3. When the Text Has its Own Foreword
Part II. The Realm of Secrecy
Section 4. Someone Must Be Credulous
Section 5. Tempted By the Impossible
Section 6. The Less One Talks, The Less One Is Caught
Part III. Telling It All
Section 7. If You Could Do Something: 1. A bewitched in hospital
2. She a magician?
3. The misunderstanding
4. Impotent against impotence
Section 8. The Omnipotent Witch: 1. The imperishable bastard
2. Speaking
3. Touching
4. Looking
5. A death at the crossroads
6. Ex post facto
Section 9. Taking Over: 1. Inexplicable misfortunes
2. The other witch
Section 10. To Return Evil for Evil: 1. Madame Marie from Alençon
2. Madame Marie from Izé
3. If you feel capable
Section 11. Mid-way Speculations: 1. Concepts and presuppositions
2. Attack by witchcraft and its warding off
Appendices
References.