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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226893987

ISBN-139780226893983

eBay Product ID (ePID)57171395

Product Key Features

Number of Pages128 Pages

Publication NameEthnographic Sorcery

LanguageEnglish

SubjectWitchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Magick Studies, Anthropology / General, World / African

Publication Year2007

TypeTextbook

AuthorHarry G. West

Subject AreaBody, Mind & Spirit, Political Science, Social Science

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight6.8 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2006-030054

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal305.8964

Table Of ContentPreface Acknowledgements Misunderstanding In Search of the Forward-Looking Peasant "This Must Be Studied Scientifically" Belief as Metaphor "The Problem May Lie There" Whose Metaphors? Powers of Perspective and Persuasion Making Meaning, Making the World Masked and Dangerous Articulated Visions Bridging Domains Working with Indeterminacy Doctors Kalamatatu Ethnographic Sorcery Circular Arguments Notes References Index

SynopsisAccording to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it. While conducting research among these Muedans, anthropologist Harry G. West made a revealing discovery-for many of them, West's efforts to elaborate an ethnographic vision of their world was itself a form of sorcery. In Ethnographic Sorcery , West explores the fascinating issues provoked by this equation. A key theme of West's research into sorcery is that one sorcerer's claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers. After West's attempt to construct a metaphorical interpretation of Muedan assertions that the lions prowling their villages are fabricated by sorcerers is disputed by his Muedan research collaborators, West realized that ethnography and sorcery indeed have much in common. Rather than abandoning ethnography, West draws inspiration from this connection, arguing that anthropologists, along with the people they study, can scarcely avoid interpreting the world they inhabit, and that we are all, inescapably, ethnographic sorcerers., According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it. While conducting research among these Muedans, anthropologist Harry G. West made a revealing discovery--for many of them, West's efforts to elaborate an ethnographic vision of their world was itself a form of sorcery. In Ethnographic Sorcery , West explores the fascinating issues provoked by this equation. A key theme of West's research into sorcery is that one sorcerer's claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers. After West's attempt to construct a metaphorical interpretation of Muedan assertions that the lions prowling their villages are fabricated by sorcerers is disputed by his Muedan research collaborators, West realized that ethnography and sorcery indeed have much in common. Rather than abandoning ethnography, West draws inspiration from this connection, arguing that anthropologists, along with the people they study, can scarcely avoid interpreting the world they inhabit, and that we are all, inescapably, ethnographic sorcerers.

LC Classification NumberDT3328.M35W46 2007