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Zusatztext "?Kapferer's introduction is an intellectual tour de force! perhaps the most important rethinking of the problems of rationality that underlie the study of witchcraft and sorcery since Evans-Pritchard." · American Anthropologist "?teems with interesting theoretical insights! and all the chapters are particularly strong in delineating local meanings within the framework of broader processes." · African Studies Review "... shows that the discourses on 'occult economies' are multiple ... The presented essays are an excellent illustration of their variety of forms and constitute a valuable contribution to their understanding." · Anthropos Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so the authors are concerned to break away from the dictates of a western externalist rationalist understanding of these phenomena without falling into the trap of mysticism. The articles address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
