RELS 3714 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Early Modern Europe, Class Conflict, Fokker E.Ii
23 Sep 2016
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Anthropology and religion chapter 8: witchcraft and sorcery. When anthropologists speak of witches they have in mind real persons who are believed to have supernatural dimension to their personality: not just people believed to be spirits or demons. Anthropologists have sought to have term witchcraft include not only beliefs and practices noted, but those of modern self-proclaimed practitioners of witchcraft or ancient religion. Traditional witchcraft and sorcery in small-scale societies: bird flu and witchcraft in contemporary cambodia a. i. Lady who hadn"t lived in village blamed for witchcraft causing illness, neighbors pay to have her killed a. ii. Sorcery: black magic-ritual activity aimed at harming, controlling, or influencing others in mystical way a. ii. 1. a. ii. 2. Can be done by anyone with means and inclination. Exists in way that people can counteract it a. iii. Witchcraft: the belief that some persons are inherently evil in a way that can cause harm to others through psychic means, even unintentionally a. iii. 1.
