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The Anthropology of Evil
Parkin
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Paperback. Evil may be said to be shadowy, mysterious, covert, and associated with night, darkness, secrecy. It is a force acting to destroy the integrity, happiness and welfare of a normala society. It is at once the cause and the explanation of misfortune, of the wretchedness of human existence, and of our own individual wrongdoing. Editor(s): Parkin, Robert. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
Evil may be said to be shadowy, mysterious, covert, and associated with night, darkness, secrecy. It is a force acting to destroy the integrity, happiness and welfare of 'normal' society. It is at once the cause and the explanation of misfortune, of the wretchedness of human existence, and of our own individual wrongdoing. That, at any rate, is substantially the...
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631154327
SKU
V9780631154327
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About Parkin
David Parkin is Emeritus Professor at Oxford University and Honorary Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has carried out a number of years' fieldwork among different peoples and in different ecologies: the Luo of western Kenya, the Giriama of eastern Kenya, and Swahili-speakers in Zanzibar and Mombasa on Islam, cultural politics, healing?and?cross-cultural semantics. Parkin is former...
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