Ethnographic sorcery
Auteur :
West, Harry G.
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226893983
Date de publication :
1 mai 2007
Dimensions :
2,2 x 1,4 x 0,1 cm
Poids :
198 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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. This work explores the issues provoked by this equation. A key theme of the author's research into sorcery is that one sorcerer's claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers.