The empty seashell : witchcraft and doubt on an Indonesian island /

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"Explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coasta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bubandt, Nils (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Witchcraft > Indonesia > Halmahera.
Ethnology > Indonesia > Halmahera.
Belief and doubt.
Sorcellerie > Indonésie > Halmahera.
Ethnologie > Indonésie > Halmahera.
Croyance et doute.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Belief and doubt
Ethnology
Religion
Witchcraft
Religionsethnologie
Christianisierung
Magie
Ahnenkult
Hexerei
Mythologie
Adat
Geisterglaube
Moderne
Orde Baru
Sozialer Austausch
Buli > Halmahera
Halmahera (Indonesia) > Religion.
Halmahera (Indonésie) > Religion.
Indonesia > Halmahera
Indonesien
Halmahera
Maluku.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index.
ISBN:9780801471964
0801471966
9780801471971
0801471974

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