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Max Marwick, ed.
Witchcraft and Sorcery: Selected Readings.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
Penguin Modern Sociology Readings series.
ISBN 0140801553.
Paperback, perfect bound.
110x179x21mm.
416pp.
English.
Fair condition: paper yellowed, spine creased, some biro marking to the contents pages.This item £2.50
294g.
No medieval emphasis. Contents:
Evans-Pritchard, Sorcery & native opinion;
Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft among the Azande;
Firth, Reason & unreason in human belief;
Macfarlane, Definitions of witchcraft;
Mayer, Witches;
Baroja, Magic & religion in the classical world;
Apuleius, Thelyphron;
Apuleius, Transformation of Lucius;
Baroja, Witchcraft amongst the German & Slavonic peoples;
Fortune, Sorcerers of Dobu;
Schapera, Sorcery & witchcraft in Bechuanaland;
Trevor-Roper, The European witch-craze;
Bednarski, The Salem witch-scare viewed sociologically;
Richards, Modern movement of witch-finders;
Marwick, Bwanali-Mpulumutsi anti-witchcraft movement;
Willis, Kamcape movement;
Macfarlane, Murray's theory - exposition & comment;
Parsons, Witchraft among the Pueblos;
Malinowski, Magic, science & religion;
Kluckhohn, Navaho witchcraft;
Krige, Social function of witchcraft;
Wilson, Witch-beliefs & social structure;
Nadel, Witchcraft in 4 African societies;
Marwick, Witchcraft as a social strain-gauge;
Macfarlane, Witchcraft & conflict;
Crawford, Consequences of allegation;
Gluckman, Logic of African science & witchcraft;
Polanyi, Stability of scientific theories against experience;
Horton, African traditional thought & western science;
Cardozo, Modern American witch-craze;
Postscript: decline of witch-beliefs in differentiated societies.
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