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Aberdeenshire, 156 Academia, Conflict In, 5, 32–3, 36, 37–8, 55–6, 189 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80868-2 - Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern Index More information Index Aberdeenshire, 156 Ankarloo, Bengt, 156 academia, conflict in, 5, 32–3, 36, 37–8, anthrax scare, 24, 45, 48, 195 55–6, 189, 201 anthropological analysis, modes of, 3–4, acculturation, 94 8, 9–10 aconite, 141 Antze, Paul, 95 adoption, international, 87 Arens, William, 51, 59 Aeneas, 53 Assam, 177, 178 Afghanistan, 111 assault sorcery, 81, 170, 185; gossip, Africa, xiii, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12–13; and compared with, 83; in Pangia, 120–1, vampire stories, 51; see also names of 124–5; among Duna, 124–5; and specific peoples Oksapmin, 125;asappropriationof AIDS, 49, 69, 79, 91, 124–5, 135 vitality, 171 Airds farm, 159 Augsburg, 26 AK-47s, 181 Auslander, Mark, 67–72, 92, 187 Akan, 191 Ayodhya, 177, 180–1 Akin, David, 73 Ayrshire, 15, 51 Al-Qaeda, 111 Azande, 2–3, 8, 65 Albigensians, 15 Allport, Gordon, 40–3, 101, 171, 183 Babha, Homi, 182 Ambeli,´ 56–7 Babri Masjid mosque, 177, 180–1 ambiguity, 30, 83, 93, 103 Bailey, Michael, 16, 143 Ambon, 173 Banda, 174 Amin, Shahid, 106–7 Bangka, 175 Anderson, Jens, 3, 79, 129 Bangladesh, 178, 180, 181 Andreski, Stanislav, 145–6 Barnes, R. H., 169, 174–5 Angels of Mons, 198 Basel, massacre of Jews in, 146 Angus, 159–60 Bayly, Christopher, 107 217 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80868-2 - Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern Index More information Index belladonna, 141 Brison, Karen, 129–31, 192 Bemba, 60–2 Buginese, 172 Bengal, 177, 178 Burridge, Kenelm, 108 Bernard, Richard, 152 betrayal, 44, 197 Calcutta, 178, 181 Bharatiya Janata Party, 180, 181, 182 Cameroon, 13 Biak, 173–4 Campbell, John, 36 “bierricht,” 158 cannibal imagery, 6, 50–1, 73, 75; and bifurcated epistemology, 118 djambe, 78; and ideas about Bihar, 177, 178 Europeans, 81–6; in Mount Hagen, bin Laden, Osama, 111 114–19, 136, 147; among Hewa, 126;in birds of paradise, 6 European witchcraft, 150; in case of Black Death, 146, 147 Forfar witches, 160; and colonial Bleek, Wolf, 191 stereotypes, 172 blood: in vampire stories, 81–6; and capitalism, 75, 89–91, 94, 114, 123 pollution, 118 “cargo” ideas, 77, 87–8, 132–7 blood feud, 40 Carrier, James, 98 Bocage, 57 Carslaw, W. H., 15 Bode, Bernardus, 175 caste, 97, 101, 104 Bodin, Jean, 146, 153 Cathars, 15, 149 bodkins, 154 cemeteries, 69–70, 136; see also funeral body: social processes and, 73–76, 87, 88, practices 97, 99, 170; and pollution ideas, 104–5; Cewa,ˆ 10–11, 68, 79 and epidemiology, 122; and cannibal charity, 22–3 imagery, 170 Chaudhri, Anna, 92 body parts, theft of by witches, 68, 70; Chelmsford, 154 see also cannibal imagery child abuse, 87, 94–5, 189, 199–200 Bombay, 181 China, 88 Boquet, Henri, 150 Chittagong, 181 Borneo, 168, 172, 174 chisambe, 68 Bothwell, Fourth Earl of, 161 Christianity, 8–9, 10, 102; and theology Bothwell, Fifth Earl of, 161 of witchcraft, 14–15, 17, 142; and Bourdieu, Pierre, 104–5, 193 Catholic Church, 15, 19, 25, 85, 95, 142, Bowen, Elenore Smith (Laura 151, 155; and Calvinism, 15, 151; and Bohannan), 93 Presbyterian Church, 15; and Boyer, Paul, 164–7, 193 Anglican Church, 19, 154; and Brass, Paul, 180, 181, 182, 183 Lutheran Church, 25, 26, 117, 134–5, Brazil, 86–8 151; among Makah Indians, 33;in Brenneis, Donald, 54 New Guinea, 47, 125; in Africa, 65, 69, 218 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80868-2 - Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern Index More information Index 71, 77; among Ngoni, 69; and burial Conolly, M., 161 practices, 69–70, 175; and Zionist conspiracy theories, 104, 105, 109–10, 117, Church, 71; and Baptist Church, 77; 147, 196; and Pentecostalism, 200 and Watchtower movement, 85; and construction sacrifice, 168, 169, 173, John Maranke movement, 94; and 175–6 Eastern Orthodox Church, 109; and Cook, David, 161, 167 world’s end narratives, 119, 123–4, 135; Cornfoot, Janet, 160–1, 166–7 and divination, 125; among Kwanga, cosmos, 95, 115, 133, 199, 200 129; and “cargo” movements, 132–7; Covenanters, 160 and paganism in Europe, 140–1; and crime, 98–9 folk-healers, 142, 154; and Islam, Crittenden, Robert, 136 173–4; and Bible, in Gusii area, 187; Cromwell, Oliver, 154, 159 and Seventh Day Adventism, 188; and Csordas, Thomas, 122 Pentecostalism, 189, 190, 200; and “cunning folk,” 152, 153, 154, 165, 202 Assemblies of God, 190 cursing, 157–8 Church’s franchise, 48–9 Curzon, Lord, 177–8 cinquefoil, 141 civil war, in England, 154; in Scotland, dacoits, 98 160 Daemonologie, 19, 156 Clark, Stuart, 161 Danbury, 153 Cohn, Norman, 149 Darnley, Lord, 161 Colombo, 185 Das, Veena, 182–3 colonial change, 12–13, 62, 63–4, 71, 75, Davidson, Hilda, 92 196; and vampire stories, 81–6;inthe Davies, Norman, 15 British Raj, 96–106; in Papua New Davies, O., 152 Guinea, 113–14, 120; in Pangia, 120–2; Dayaks, 172, 173 in Duna, 124–5; and “cargo” De lamiis, 143 movements, 132–7; in Indonesia, death squads, 88 168–77; in India, 177–83; among Gusii, definitions, of witchcraft and sorcery, 186, 191 1–2, 6 Colson, Elizabeth, 33–5 delatores, 100–1 Columbus, Christopher, 145 Delhi, 101 Comaroff, Jean, 75–6, 91, 92–3, 94, 174, Demos, John, 165 191 Denmark, 161 Comaroff, John, 75–6, 91, 174, 191 Device, Alizon, 18 community, definition of, 201 Devil, the, 13, 16, 19, 20, 24;asElT´ıo, 4, concealed meanings, 130 58, 93; and the plague, 24, 147; and confessions, 52, 62, 125, 147, 150, 158, sexuality, 26, 150; and 9/11/2001, 46; 159–60; see also torture and Procter and Gamble, 46–7; and 219 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80868-2 - Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern Index More information Index Devil (cont.) madness, 120–1; of assault sorcery, witchcraft, 59–60, 123–4, 142, 145–51, 121–2; among Duna, 126 156–62; in theme of occult economies, “epidemiology of representations,” 127 89–91; and child abuse, 95; and Ershad, President, 180–1 world’s end, 119, 123, 124, 135; and Essex, England, xiii, 21–3, 152–6, 201, 202 folk-healers, 142, 154; and the Black Essex County, Massachusetts, 165 Death, 147; as instigator of violence, ethnicity, 47, 60, 68; and headhunting, 152; in Salem witchcraft, 162, 164;as 169, 170; and violence, 172, 173–4, source of jealousy, 190;ascorrupter, 181–2; emergence of, 183 196; and child abuse, 199 Europe, xi, xiii, 5, 8, 13–28, 117; see also Diana, 141 names of specific countries Dido, 53 European Union, 109 diviners, 11, 63, 125–6, 187, 202 Evans-Pritchard, Edward E., 2–3, 8, djambe, 78–81, 115 65–6, 79 Doctor Moses, 71–2 Ewe, 189 Doob, Leonard, 44 exploitation, 74, 75, 87, 113 Douglas, Arthur, 157 Douglas, Mary, xi, 3, 50–1, 122–40 Favret-Saada, Jeanne, 57 Drake, R. A., 169 Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela, 197 du Boulay, Juliet, 56, 57 fertility, 64, 70, 133 Duiker, William, 149 Fife, 156, 160–1 Dumfries, 159 firemen, 84 Duna, 68, 75, 124–5, 188 Firth, Raymond, 54 Dutch colonialism, 170, 172, 174 Flores, 168, 169–70 folk-healers (Europe), 142, 152–6, 166; East Lothian, 158–9 (Africa), 188 East Timor, 173 Forbes, Thomas, 26, 145 Eastern Europe, 156 Forfar, 159–60 ecstasy, 141 Formicarius, the, 149 El T´ıo, 4, 58, 93 Forth, Gregory, 173 Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 20, 94 France, 43, 75, 85, 141; see also names of Ellen, Roy, 3 specific places Ellis, Bill, 200 Fretilin, 173 emechendo, 187 Fribourg, 146 England, 99; see also names of specific Friuli (N. Italy), 141 places Fuller, Thomas, 153 Eni, Emmanuel, 189–90 funeral practices, 69–70, 79, 98, 173, epidemics, 7, 75; of cannibalism, 114–19; 175–6 and witchcraft/sorcery, 119–23;of Fussell, Paul, 198–9 220 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80868-2 - Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern Index More information Index Gandhi, Mahatma, 106–7, 178 Hatty, James, 146 Gandhi, Rajiv, 180 Hatty, Suzanne, 146 Garnier, Jean-Pierre, 78 Hausa, 73 gender, witchcraft and, 22, 24–7, 68; and Haviland, John, 5, 56 mourning, 70; and change, 93; among headhunting, 168, 169, 170, 172, 173, 174 Duna, 126; among Hewa, 128;in hemlock, 141 Europe, 142–3, 144, 149, 154; in Essex, henbane, 141 154; in Scotland, 157–8; among Gusii, Henningsen, Gustav, 141, 156 186–91 Henry VIII, King of England, 19, 20 George, Kenneth, 169–70 herbs, 141–2 Germany, 25–6; and sexual fantasies, 25; heresy, witchcraft and, 16 and anal themes, 26; and Stasi files, Herodias, 141 39; and spy story, 44; and story of Herskovits, Melville, 31–2 rendering down battlefield corpses, Hewa, 126–8 199; see also names of specific places hierarchy, 97, 113 Geschiere, Peter, xiii, 13, 59, 76–81, 92 Hindus, 101–6 Ghana, 190, 191; see also Ewe Hopkins, Matthew, 154 Ghosh, Anjan, 177–83 Hoskins, Janet, 170–1, 172, 173 Gifford, George, 22, 153 Howie, John, 15 gift-economy, 115, 123 Ginzburg, Carlo, 8, 117, 141, 147, 148 India, 96–106, 177–83; partition of, 177 globalization, 60, 93, 94, 166;ofthe Indian Mutiny, 101–6, 196 Assemblies of God, 190 Indian National Congress Party, 178, 180 Gluckman, Max, 9–10; theory of gossip Indonesia, 168–76 of, 12, 30–5, 83, 182, 191, 200–1 Innocent VIII, Pope, 143–4 Goldman, Laurence, 114 Inquisitions, 15, 23, 144, 147, 151 goonda, 178, 181 intergenerational conflict, 67–72, 187–91 Granada, King of, 147 Irian Jaya (West Papua), 172, 173–4 greed, 67, 68, 74, 75, 78–9, 114, 123 Islam, in Nigeria, 75;inIrianJaya,173–4; Greece, 56, 57, 109, 110; see also Ambeli´ in India, 177–83; in Bangladesh, 180–1 Guha, Ranajit, 96–106, 108, 171, 182 Gusii, 186–91 Jaffna Peninsula, 185 Guthrie, Helen, 160 James, VI and I, King of Scotland and England, 19, 20, 156 habitus, 104 jealousy, 12, 66, 68, 73, 74, 75, 77, 81, 189, Hacking, Ian, 199–200 191 hallucinogens, 141 Jews, 82, 110, 146, 147, 148 hamartia, 197 jihad, in Bangladesh, 178, 180–1;in Hatfield Peverel, 22 Calcutta, 179 221 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80868-2 - Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip Pamela J.
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