ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: System On A Chip, Aphorism, Social Fact
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Witchcraft is an organic and hereditary phenomenon: azande believe some are witches and sorcerers, witch, performs no rite, utters no spell, possesses no medicines, witchcraft is a psychic act, sorcerers, performs magic rites, uses bad medicines. Witchcraft: thought as a general force, think of it impersonally and apart from any particular witch or witches. Witchcraft: lead to death in slow stages, eg. If a person is accused of witchcraft and feels insulted, he can instruct sons to open his abdomen or his son who died prematurely. Concept of witchcraft: provides them with natural philosophy: by which relations b/w men and unfortunate events, are explained and, a ready and stereotyped means of reacting to them, embrace a system of values- this regulates human conduct. Witchcraft is ubiquitous: zandes attributes all misfortunes to witchcraft, unless: There is strong evidence, subsequent oracular confirmation that sorcery/ other evil agent has been at work, or.
