Historians as well as anthropologists have contributed to this volume of studies on aspects of witchcraft in a variety of cultures and periods from Tudor England to twentieth-century Africa and New Guinea. Contributors include: Mary Douglas, Norman Cohn, Peter Brown, Keith Thomas, Alan Macfarlane, Alison Redmayne, R.G. Willis, Edwin Ardener, Robert Brain, Julian Pitt-Rivers, Esther Goody, Peter Rivi???re, Anthony Forge, Godfrey Lienhardt, I.M. Lewis, Brian Spooner, G.I. Jones, Malcolm Ruel and T.O. Beidelman. First ...
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Historians as well as anthropologists have contributed to this volume of studies on aspects of witchcraft in a variety of cultures and periods from Tudor England to twentieth-century Africa and New Guinea. Contributors include: Mary Douglas, Norman Cohn, Peter Brown, Keith Thomas, Alan Macfarlane, Alison Redmayne, R.G. Willis, Edwin Ardener, Robert Brain, Julian Pitt-Rivers, Esther Goody, Peter Rivi???re, Anthony Forge, Godfrey Lienhardt, I.M. Lewis, Brian Spooner, G.I. Jones, Malcolm Ruel and T.O. Beidelman. First published in 1970.
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Good (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Tear along cloth of spine. Tape residue along bottom of spine. Several pages have page numbers circled. Pages are otherwise clear. ) Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; xxxviii, 387 pp. Papers presented at the annual conference on the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth, King's College, Cambridge, 3-6 April, 1968, which was held in honor of E.E. Evans-Pritchard. Contents include: Introduction: Thirty years after Witchcraft, oracles and magic / Mary Douglas--The myth of Satan and his human servants / Norman Cohn--Sorcery, demons, and the rise of Christianity from late antiquity into the Middle Ages / Peter Brown--The relevance of social anthropology to the historical study of English witchcraft / Keith Thomas--Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart Essex / Alan MacFarlane--Chikanga: an African diviner with an international reputation / Alison Redmayne--Instant millennium: the sociology of African witch-cleansing cults / R.G. Willis--Witchcraft, economics, and the continuity of belief / Edwin Ardener--Child-witches / Robert Brain--Spiritual power in Central America: the Naguals of Chiapas / Julian Pitt-Rivers--Legitimate and illegitimate aggression in a West African state / Esther Goody--Factions and exclusions in two South American village systems / Peter Rivière--Prestige, influence, and sorcery: a New Guinea example / Anthony Forge--The situation of death: an aspect of Anuak philosophy / Godfrey Lienhardt--A structural approach to witchcraft and spirit-possession / I.M. Lewis--The evil eye in the Middle East / Brian Spooner--A boundary to accusations / G.I. Jones--Were-animals and the introverted witch / Malcolm Ruel--Towards more open theoretical interpretations / T.O. Beidelman.
