Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007
2. Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan), 1902-1973.
3. Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth.

Description

1. xxxviii, 387 pages; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. A.S.A. monographs, 9

Uniform title

1. A.S.A. monographs ; 9.

Alternative title

1. Witchcraft confessions and accusations

Subject

1. Evans-Pritchard, E. E
2. Witchcraft > Congresses
3. Occultism
4. occult sciences
5. occultism
6. Animals
7. Magic and sorcery - Clever people
8. Indigenous peoples - Africa
9. Magic and sorcery - Divination
10. Religion - Rites - Cleansing
11. Religions - Christianity
12. Occultism
13. Witchcraft
14. Hekserij
15. Macht
16. Antropologische aspecten
17. Witchcraft
18. Sorcellerie > Congrès
19. Africa
20. Papua New Guinea (PNG)
21. South America
22. Australia

Genre/Form

1. proceedings (reports)
2. Conference papers and proceedings
3. Conference papers and proceedings.
4. Actes de congrès.
5. Congress

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "Distributed in the U.S.A. by Barnes & Noble."
2. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographies.