ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Millenarianism, Syncretism, Zande People

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Nicole Hayes

Document Summary

If you want to influence forces in your favour you must approach them as if they are human. Inherited in a unilinear fashion: passed on mother to daughter and father to son, has to do with the belief in souls. One can be a witch without knowing it. Difference between sorcerers and witches: sorcerers are like the bad ones and use spells, witches are born able to do magic. Have done autopsies to check if people were witches. Old people would be very strong and powerful. Witchcraft is used for ill will so old people are feared. Can find out if being bewitched through the oracles. No man would ever bewitch his own wife. Women are not allowed to consult the oracles. Typically accuse people in same strata as you of witchcraft. Natural causation is the first spear but witchcraft is the second spear . Witch cannot compel behaviour, make a person tell lies or commit adultery.