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Title Magic, witchcraft, and curing / John Middleton, compiler.

Imprint Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the American Museum of Natural History [New York, by] the Natural History Press, 1967.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Baron  133.4 M272 1967    ---  Lib Use Only
Description x, 346 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series American Museum sourcebooks in anthropology
American Museum sourcebooks in anthropology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-330).
Contents The morphology and function of magic: a comparative study of Trobriand and Zande ritual and spells / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- The sorcerer and his magic / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Miching Mallecho, that means witchcraft / Laura Bohannan -- The concept of "bewitching" in Lugbara / John Middleton -- Nagual, witch, and sorcerer in a Quiché village / Benson Saler -- The sociology of sorcery in a Central African tribe / M.G. Marwick -- Witchcraft as social process in a Tzeltal community / Manning Nash -- A sociological analysis of witch beliefs in a Mysore village / Scarlett Epstein -- Konkomba sorcery / David Tait -- Dreams and the wishes of the soul: a type of psychoanalytic theory among the seventeenth century Iroquois / Anthony F.C. Wallace -- Shamanistic behavior among the Netsilik Eskimos / Asen Balikci -- Divination in Bunyoro, Uganda / John Beattie -- Divination and its social contexts / George K Park -- Witchcraft and clanship in Cochiti therapy / J. Robin Fox -- Group therapy and social status in the Zar cult of Ethiopia / Simon D. Messing -- Spirit possession as illness in a North Indian village / Stanley A. and Ruth S. Freed.
Subject Magic.
Witchcraft.
Magic (DNLM)D008273
Occultism (DNLM)D009781
Magic. (OCoLC)fst01005468
Witchcraft. (OCoLC)fst01176327
Added Author Middleton, John, 1921-2009, compiler.
American Museum of Natural History.

 
    
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