Add to ORKGInternational audienceAnthropology endeavours to understand irrational phenomena in a rational, scientific manner. Behind popular practices and forms of belief, it seeks to elucidate a coordinated and interconnected system of ideas. It stresses the social and symbolic logic, sustaining what at first sight seems to be fanciful and false conceptions. From this perspective, witchcraft is mainly a way of explaining the occurrence of otherwise inexplicable misfortunes. It is also a means of accusing a particular supposedly malevolent person of harming a relative or a neighbour by magical means. Such is, for instance, the position upheld by Jang Bahadur’s 1854 Muluki Ain, which, in its special section about boksi (witches), not only asserts that ...
The article is an edited version of a chapter from Professor Katz\u27s book, Bad Acts and Guilty Min...
Witchcraft’s prevalence in Africa, and many other places in the world, has been a subject of interes...
In this paper I discuss Polycarp Ikuenobe's view that it is rational to believe, in an African conte...
Evans-Pritchard describes the beliefs and practices of the African tribe, the Azande. According to A...
National audienceIn nearly every documented society, people believe that some misfortunes are caused...
When writer Kent Russell went to Papua New Guinea to write a piece about the villages there, he foun...
Black Magi is a practice that uses supernatural powers for nefarious purposes. The practice of Black...
Witchcraft, a topic of perennial interest in anthropology, is seen to be problematic due to the abse...
The first of two articles on bewitchment reports the findings of a qualitative study based on interv...
The purpose of this research paper is to investigate the growing interest in the occult, especially ...
Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their ex...
If you are thinking that witch hunting is a phenomenon that dates back to primitive society practice...
Attempts to define and describe magic must reckon with this concept’s slipperiness, as magic is ofte...
Attempts to establish cross-culturally valid definitions of witchcraft, sorcery and destructive mag...
The belief in witchcraft and sorcery is a significant cause of intentional homicide in Kenya. Moreov...
The article is an edited version of a chapter from Professor Katz\u27s book, Bad Acts and Guilty Min...
Witchcraft’s prevalence in Africa, and many other places in the world, has been a subject of interes...
In this paper I discuss Polycarp Ikuenobe's view that it is rational to believe, in an African conte...
Evans-Pritchard describes the beliefs and practices of the African tribe, the Azande. According to A...
National audienceIn nearly every documented society, people believe that some misfortunes are caused...
When writer Kent Russell went to Papua New Guinea to write a piece about the villages there, he foun...
Black Magi is a practice that uses supernatural powers for nefarious purposes. The practice of Black...
Witchcraft, a topic of perennial interest in anthropology, is seen to be problematic due to the abse...
The first of two articles on bewitchment reports the findings of a qualitative study based on interv...
The purpose of this research paper is to investigate the growing interest in the occult, especially ...
Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their ex...
If you are thinking that witch hunting is a phenomenon that dates back to primitive society practice...
Attempts to define and describe magic must reckon with this concept’s slipperiness, as magic is ofte...
Attempts to establish cross-culturally valid definitions of witchcraft, sorcery and destructive mag...
The belief in witchcraft and sorcery is a significant cause of intentional homicide in Kenya. Moreov...
The article is an edited version of a chapter from Professor Katz\u27s book, Bad Acts and Guilty Min...
Witchcraft’s prevalence in Africa, and many other places in the world, has been a subject of interes...
In this paper I discuss Polycarp Ikuenobe's view that it is rational to believe, in an African conte...