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Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia / ed. by C. W. Watson, Roy Ellen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824840464
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 133.4/3/0959 20
LOC classification:
  • BF1584.A785 U53 1993eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Relativity of Magical Malevolence in Urban Thailand -- 3 Witchcraft, Sorcery, Fortune, and Misfortune among Lisu Highlanders of Northern Thailand -- 4 Witches, Fortune, and Misfortune among the Shan of Northwestern Thailand -- 5 Anger, Anxiety, and Sorcery: An Analysis of Some Nuaulu Case Material from Seram, Eastern Indonesia -- 6 Social and Symbolic Aspects of the Witch among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia -- 7 Observations on the Practice of Sorcery in Java -- 8 Sorcery and the Law in Modern Indonesia -- 9 Knowledge, Power, and Personal Misfortune in a Malay Context -- 10 Return to Sender: A Muslim Discourse of Sorcery in a Relatively Egalitarian Society, the Gayo of Northern Sumatra -- 11 Perceptions from Within: Malign Magic in Indonesian Literature -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX -- CONTRIBUTORS
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780824840464

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Relativity of Magical Malevolence in Urban Thailand -- 3 Witchcraft, Sorcery, Fortune, and Misfortune among Lisu Highlanders of Northern Thailand -- 4 Witches, Fortune, and Misfortune among the Shan of Northwestern Thailand -- 5 Anger, Anxiety, and Sorcery: An Analysis of Some Nuaulu Case Material from Seram, Eastern Indonesia -- 6 Social and Symbolic Aspects of the Witch among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia -- 7 Observations on the Practice of Sorcery in Java -- 8 Sorcery and the Law in Modern Indonesia -- 9 Knowledge, Power, and Personal Misfortune in a Malay Context -- 10 Return to Sender: A Muslim Discourse of Sorcery in a Relatively Egalitarian Society, the Gayo of Northern Sumatra -- 11 Perceptions from Within: Malign Magic in Indonesian Literature -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX -- CONTRIBUTORS

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In English.

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