Description: Further DetailsTitle: Naming the WitchCondition: NewFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 0804751943EAN: 9780804751940ISBN: 9780804751940Publisher: Stanford University PressRelease Date: 11/16/2005Description: Naming the Witch explores the recent series of witchcraft accusations and killings in East Java, which spread as the Suharto regime slipped into crisis and then fell. After many years of ethnographic work focusing on the origins and nature of violence in Indonesia, Siegel came to the conclusion that previous anthropological explanations of witchcraft and magic, mostly based on sociological conceptions but also including the work of E.E. Evans-Pritchard and Claude Lévi-Strauss, were simply inadequate to the task of providing a full understanding of the phenomena associated with sorcery, and particularly with the ideas of power connected with it. Previous explanations have tended to see witchcraft in simple opposition to modernism and modernity (enchantment vs. disenchantment). The author sees witchcraft as an effect of culture, when the latter is incapable of dealing with accident, death, and the fear of the disintegration of social and political relations. He shows how and why modernization and witchcraft can often be companions, as people strive to name what has hitherto been unnameable.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 1002gAuthor: James SiegelGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Cultural Memory in the PresentType: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Naming the Witch
Title: Naming the Witch
ISBN-10: 0804751943
EAN: 9780804751940
ISBN: 9780804751940
Release Date: 11/16/2005
Release Year: 2005
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Naming the Witch
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), Sociology / General, Folklore & Mythology
Publication Year: 2005
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 35.3 Oz
Subject Area: Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
Author: James Siegel
Item Length: 9.3 in
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
