Magic, Witchcraft, and Curing.
Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 346pp. Black cloth spine with brown cloth boards, Bibliography, index, frontis map, b&w diagrams. A series of essays presenting ethnographic accounts of magical beliefs and behavior which including works by such authorities as E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Claude Levi-Strauss, and David Tait. Contents: Introduction by John Middleton; The morphology and function of magic: a comparative study of Trobriand and Zande ritual and spells by E. E. Evans-Pritchard; The sorcerer and his magic by Claude Le?vi-Strauss; Miching Mallecho, that means witchcraft by Laura Bohannan; The concept of "bewitching" in Lugbara by John Middleton; Nagual, witch, and sorcerer in a Quiche? village by Benson Saler; The sociology of sorcery in a Central African tribe by M.G. Marwick; Witchcraft as social process in a Tzeltal community by Manning Nash; A sociological analysis of witch beliefs in a Mysore village by Scarlett Epstein; Konkomba sorcery by David Tait; Dreams and the wishes of the soul: a type of psychoanalytic theory among the seventeenth century Iroquois by Anthony F.C. Wallace; Shamanistic behavior among the Netsilik Eskimos by Asen Balikci; Divination in Bunyoro, Uganda by John Beattie; Divination and its social contexts by George K Park; Witchcraft and clanship in Cochiti therapy by J. Robin Fox; Group therapy and social status in the Zar cult of Ethiopia by Simon D. Messing; And Spirit possession as illness in a North Indian village by Stanley A. and Ruth S. Freed. Just a hint of shelf wear, pages lightly toned - else a lovely unmarked near Fine copy in VG+ dust jacket (Dust jacket lightly creased at spine ends, a little darkening to rear panel, not clipped. Now in mylar cover). Item #66927
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