Empty seashell, the: witchcraft and doubt on an indonesian island
Auteur :
Bubandt, Nils
Éditeur :
Cornell University Press
ISBN :
9780801452956
Date de publication :
8 déc. 2014
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
907 g
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork, 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.