Naming the Witch

Zusatztext "This is an exceptionally rich book that deserves careful study." Informationen zum Autor James Siegel is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University. Klappentext 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. > Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Siegel, James Siegel, James T. Siegel
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2005
• EAN: 9780804751957
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5195-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore