The empty seashell: witchcraft and doubt on an Indonesian island

"Explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coasta...

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1. Verfasser: Bubandt, Nils 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2014
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Zusammenfassung:"Explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable"
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis Seite 263-284
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 293 Seiten) Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:9780801471971

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