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Naming the Witch
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Description for Naming the Witch
Paperback. Naming the Witch explores the recent series of witchcraft accusations and killings in East Java, which spread as the Suharto regime slipped into crisis and then fell. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HRQX5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Naming the Witch explores the recent series of witchcraft accusations and killings in East Java, which spread as the Suharto regime slipped into crisis and then fell. After many years of ethnographic work focusing on the origins and nature of violence in Indonesia, Siegel came to the conclusion that previous anthropological explanations of witchcraft and magic, mostly based on sociological conceptions but also including the work of E.E. Evans-Pritchard and Claude Lévi-Strauss, were simply inadequate to the task of providing a full understanding of the phenomena associated with sorcery, and particularly with the ideas of power connected with it.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804751957
SKU
V9780804751957
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Ref
99-50
About Brown Book Group Little
James Siegel is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University.
Reviews for Naming the Witch
"...this monograph [is] a major contribution and should help to put the purportedly old-fashioned topic of witches and witchcraft accusations back into the centre of anthropological study of Asia."—Religion "This is an exceptionally rich book that deserves careful study."—Pacific Affairs