Magic, witchcraft, and curing.
Contributors: American Museum of Natural History.
Series: American Museum sourcebooks in anthropology
Publisher: Published for the American Museum of Natural History [New York, by] the Natural History Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Magic; Witchcraft
Notes: Bibliography: p. [321]-330.
Table of contents: title: The morphology and function of magic: a comparative study of Trobriand and Zande ritual and spells / E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- The sorcerer and his magic / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Miching Mallecho, that means witchcraft / Laura Bohannan -- The concept of "bewitching" in Lugbara / John Middleton -- Nagual, witch, and sorcerer in a Quiché village / Benson Saler -- The sociology of sorcery in a Central African tribe / M. G. Marwick -- Witchcraft as social process in a Tzeltal community / Manning Nash -- A sociological analysis of witch beliefs in a Mysore village / Scarlett Epstein -- Konkomba sorcery / David Tait -- Dreams and the wishes of the soul: a type of psychoanalytic theory among the seventeenth century Iroquois / Anthony F. C. Wallace -- Shamanistic behavior among the Netsilik Eskimos / Asen Balikci -- Divination in Bunyoro, Uganda / John Beattie -- Divination and its social contexts / George K Park -- Witchcraft and clanship in Cochiti therapy / J. Robin Fox -- Group therapy and social status in the Zar cult of Ethiopia / Simon D. Messing -- Spirit possession as illness in a North Indian village / Stanley A. and Ruth S. Freed.