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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lemert, Edwin M. (Edwin McCarthy), 1912-1996
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Series:SUNY series in deviance and social control.
Subjects:
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
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