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Naming the Witch explores the recent series of witchcraft accusations and killings in East Java, which spread as the Suharto regime slipped into crisis and then fell.

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"...this monograph [is] a major contribution and should help to put the purportedly old-fashioned topic of witches and witchcraft accusations back into the centre of anthropological study of Asia."—Religion
"This is an exceptionally rich book that deserves careful study."—Pacific Affairs

Table of Contents
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Introduction iii @toc1:Part One: The Magic Word @toc2:1 The Truth of Sorcery 000 2 Voodoo Death 000 3 Institutionalizing Witchcraft 000 Part Two: Witches Resurrected 4 Suharto, Witches 5 Menace from all Directions 6 Naming the Witch Epilogue: Magic out of Place: Singularity and Convention 000 @toc4:Acknowledgements 000 Notes 000

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/11/2005
      ISBN13: 9780804751940, 978-0804751940
      ISBN10: 0804751943

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Naming the Witch explores the recent series of witchcraft accusations and killings in East Java, which spread as the Suharto regime slipped into crisis and then fell.

      Trade Review
      "...this monograph [is] a major contribution and should help to put the purportedly old-fashioned topic of witches and witchcraft accusations back into the centre of anthropological study of Asia."—Religion
      "This is an exceptionally rich book that deserves careful study."—Pacific Affairs

      Table of Contents
      @fmct:Contents @toc4:Introduction iii @toc1:Part One: The Magic Word @toc2:1 The Truth of Sorcery 000 2 Voodoo Death 000 3 Institutionalizing Witchcraft 000 Part Two: Witches Resurrected 4 Suharto, Witches 5 Menace from all Directions 6 Naming the Witch Epilogue: Magic out of Place: Singularity and Convention 000 @toc4:Acknowledgements 000 Notes 000

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