ANTHROP 2R03 Final: Final Exam Notes

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Witchcraft: accounts for misfortune, especially common explanation in sub-saharan africa, not only african witchcraft beliefs in europe, north america, functionalist approach witchcraft beliefs promote social stability: clyde kluckholn, Navaho: witchcraft keeps people from neglecting elderly, promotes redistribution of wealth, promotes obedience to authority. Inherited from parent of same sex substance/organ is acting. Interesting fielding hardly any rituals because fielder has almost complete control over his performance like inshore fishing: rituals lead to sense of control, lead to confidence. Luhrmann: persuasions of the witch"s craft 1989, of two minds: an anthropologist looks at american psychiatry 2001, when god talks back: understanding the american evangelical relationship with god. Hewlett: central african republic late 1990s and 2012 congo basin, same area as film world of witchcraft. If healer accuses someone of being a molemba and sending illness, that person can reject the accusation and take mbondo themselves (or have a healer take it for them) to prove they are innocent.

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