Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations.
London: Tavistock Publications, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxviii + 388pp. Original black cloth gilt titling to spine. Notes & indexes, maps, coloured top edge. A wide-ranging collection of essays. "This volume brings together eighteen contributions by social anthropologists and historians dealing with witchcraft in the historical past and in the present." 'A.S.A. Monographs 9.' Contents: Introduction : Thirty years after Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic by Mary Douglas; The Myth of Satan and his Human Servants by Norman Cohn; Sorcery, Demons, and the rise of Christianity from late Antiquity into the Middle Ages by Peter Brown; The Relevance of Social Anthropology to the Historical Study of English Witchcraft by Keith Thomas; Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart Essex by Alan MacFarlane; Chikanga: an African diviner with an International Reputation by Alison Redmayne; Instant millennium : the Sociology of African Witch-Cleansing Cults by R.G. Willis; Witchcraft, Economics, and the Continuity of Belief by Edwin Ardener; Child-Witches by Robert Brain; Spiritual Power in Central America: the Naguals of Chiapas by Julian Pitt-Rivers; Legitimate and Illegitimate Aggression in a West African State by Esther Goody; Factions and Exclusions in two South American village Systems by Peter Rivie?re; Prestige, influence, and Sorcery : a New Guinea Example by Anthony Forge; The Situation of Death : an Aspect of Anuak philosophy by Godfrey Lienhardt; A Structural Approach to Witchcraft and Spirit-Possession by I.M. Lewis; The Evil Eye in the Middle East by Brian Spooner; A Boundary to Accusations by G.I. Jones; Were-animals and the Introverted Witch by Malcolm Ruel; Towards more open Theoretical Interpretations by T.O. Beidelman. Very light bruising to spine ends and darkening to top edge - else a lovely clean near Fine copy in near VG dust jacket (Dust jacket a bit chafed and lighty chipped at spine ends and edges, rear panel a little discoloured, not clipped. Now in protective mylar cover). Item #66877
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