This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enquiries, suggesting that a full knowledge of witchcraft involves being 'caught up' in it oneself. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a touch or a look, and whose 'power' comes from a book of spells inherited from an ancestor. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually fatal.
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佩服作者在博卡日的40個月田調,在當時的博士論文中已經有瞭新的框架。其實她談到的注重主體和對話産生巫術的問題,跟很多中國巫師的儀式活動何其相似。【反思普理查德的阿贊德人巫術研究】
評分nice try and neat structure
評分慢吞吞讀瞭好久,方法論的討論很有意思,寫瞭一篇和genealogy對比來看的作業。田野本身和我在海南的經曆和發現有太多相似的地方,簡直想重新做迴巫術研究……
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評分佩服作者在博卡日的40個月田調,在當時的博士論文中已經有瞭新的框架。其實她談到的注重主體和對話産生巫術的問題,跟很多中國巫師的儀式活動何其相似。【反思普理查德的阿贊德人巫術研究】
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