ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Benge, Zande People, Mound-Building Termites
10 Dec 2012
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Bad luck is inconceivable, there"s not real explanation for bad luck. A human is usually behind bad luck. Sorcery refers to incantation of spells and manipulation of objects to accomplish. October 26 2012 a goal: power come from contact, ex. Witchcraft is the belief in an existence of a mystical can travel over a distance that can harm people: the over the distance is important because, ex of witchcraft from different regions: Believes witches commits the most sins: such as incest, catabolism, necrophilia. Witches are motivated by the lust of food. Remove the spirit of a human and place it in a animal. Then they kill the animal and then they eat. They believed that witches leave the body of witches and then travel over a distance and appears in front of humans as a reddish glow and eat the internal organs. When something bad happens to people, they think it is a result of witchcraft.
