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
Autor principal: Bubandt, Nils (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Buli > Halmahera
Sozialer Austausch
Orde Baru
Moderne
Geisterglaube
Adat
Mythologie
Hexerei
Ahnenkult
Magie
Christianisierung
Religionsethnologie
Witchcraft.
Religion.
Ethnology.
Belief and doubt.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General.
Croyance et doute.
Ethnologie > Indonesie > Halmahera.
Sorcellerie > Indonesie > Halmahera.
Ethnology > Indonesia > Halmahera.
Witchcraft > Indonesia > Halmahera.
Maluku.
Halmahera
Indonesien
Indonesia > Halmahera.
Halmahera (Indonesie) > Religion.
Halmahera (Indonesia) > Religion.
Electronic books.
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 (320 pages).
ISBN:9780801471971

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