Western Apache Witchcraft /

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"An ethnographic contribution describing the beliefs and ideas associated with witchcraft as shared "knowledge" that the Apaches have about their universe. Uncovers the types of interpersonal relationships with which witchcraft accusations are regularly associated and posits explanati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Basso, Keith H., 1940-2013
Format: Thesis Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2004, 1969.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Witchcraft.
Western Apache Indians > Religion.
Sorcellerie > États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest)
Apache de l'Ouest (Indiens) > Religion
Witchcraft > Southwest, New.
Western Apache Indians > Mythology.
New Southwest.
Academic theses.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The aims of this study
  • 2. Background: the Western Apache
  • 3. The content of the witchcraft beliefs
  • 4. Witchcraft in its social context
  • 5. Interpretation and conclusions.

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