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Ethnographic Sorcery
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of i
Beyond Rationalism
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-02-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on huma
In Darkness and Secrecy
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In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or “dark shamanism.” Anthro
Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa
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Containing ten essays by anthropologists on the beliefs and practices associated with witches and sorcerers in Eastern Africa, the chapters in this book are all