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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the shell of the nautilus
  • Witchcraft, doubt, and aporia
  • The origins of witchcraft and the doubts of tradition
  • Hopes, conversion, and millennial politics
  • Christianity and deception
  • The viscerality of witchcraft and the corporeality of the world
  • New Order modern
  • Subjectivity, exchange, opacity
  • Technology, money, and the futures of witchcraft.

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