The trouble with evil : social control at the edge of morality /

Edwin Lemert investigates the possibility that a consideration of evil will provide new power to explanations of deviance. He links classic studies of witchcraft and sorcery to the wider problem of social control. The search for prototypical evil (a view that Lemert rejects) turns to an investigatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lemert, Edwin M. (Edwin McCarthy), 1912-1996
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Colección:SUNY series in deviance and social control.
Temas:
Witchcraft > Africa.
Witchcraft > Melanesia.
Social control > Africa.
Social control > Melanesia.
Good and evil.
Sorcellerie > Afrique.
Contrôle social > Afrique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Good and evil
Moral conditions
Social control
Social conditions
Witchcraft
Hexerei
Het Kwaad.
Sociale controle.
Heksenvervolgingen.
Magie.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Africa > Social conditions.
Africa > Moral conditions.
Melanesia > Social conditions.
Melanesia > Moral conditions.
Afrique > Conditions sociales.
Afrique > Conditions morales.
Mélanésie > Conditions sociales.
Mélanésie > Conditions morales.
Africa
Melanesia
Afrika
Melanesien
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Edwin Lemert investigates the possibility that a consideration of evil will provide new power to explanations of deviance. He links classic studies of witchcraft and sorcery to the wider problem of social control. The search for prototypical evil (a view that Lemert rejects) turns to an investigation of sorcery because sorcery involves selfish interest and intentions on the part of the sorcerer, who uses cryptic means to harm a victim that he/she dislikes. The author then examines comparatively the conditions that produce evil actions, and social reactions to them, in a variety of societies; and he reviews explanations that previous scholars have offered for the presence and consequences of evil. A tangential consequence of this method is that the work takes on a strong Melanesian flavor, because so many of the classic studies of sorcery were conducted in that culture area. Lemert argues that the fragmented nature of political organization, rapid shifts in political alliance, and the frequency of competitive rituals involving food combine in Melanesia to produce conditions that favor the development of whole cultures that celebrate forms of animosity and violence.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 185 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-180) and index.
ISBN:0585089698
9780585089690

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