The Empty Seashell : Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island /
"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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.