{"product_id":"beyond-rationalism-rethinking-magic-witchcraft-and-sorcery-9781571814180","title":"Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThis book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so the authors are concerned to break away from the dictates of a western externalist rationalist understanding of these phenomena without falling into the trap of mysticism. The articles address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"…Kapferer’s introduction is an intellectual tour de force, perhaps the most important rethinking of the problems of rationality that underlie the study of witchcraft and sorcery since Evans-Pritchard.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  American Anthropologist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"…teems with interesting theoretical insights, and all the chapters are particularly strong in delineating local meanings within the framework of broader processes.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  African Studies Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"... shows that the discourses on 'occult economies' are multiple ... The presented essays are an excellent illustration of their variety of forms and constitute a valuable contribution to their understanding.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Anthropos\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Outside All Reason - Magic, Sorcery and Epistemology in Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eB. Kapferer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Anthroposophy and Voodoo in Dominican-Haitian Borderlands\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eM. Brendbekken\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e The Smell of Death: Theft, Disgust and Ritual Practice in Central Lombok, Indonesia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eK.G. Telle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Sorcery, Modernity and the Constitutive Imaginary: Hybridising Continuities\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eB. Kapferer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e The Sorcerer as the Absented Third Person: Formations of Fear and Anger in Vanuatu\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eK. Rio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Sorcerous Technologies and Religious Innovation in Sri Lanka\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eR. Bastin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Maleficent Fetishes and the Sensual Order of the Uncanny in South West Congo\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eR. Devisch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Fantasy in Practice: Projection and Ontrojection, or the Witch and the Spirit-Medium\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eM. Lambek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e The Discourse of 'Ritual Murder': Popular Reaction to Political Leaders in Botswana\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eO. Gulbrandsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Strange Fruit: The South African Truth Commission and Demonic Economies of Violence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eA. Feldman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041419723095,"sku":"9781571814180","price":25.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571814180.jpg?v=1750950204","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-rationalism-rethinking-magic-witchcraft-and-sorcery-9781571814180","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}