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Witchcraft Dialogues - Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges (Paperback, 1)
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Witchcraft Dialogues - Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges (Paperback, 1)
Series: Research in International Studies, Africa Series
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"Witchcraft Dialogues" analyzes the complex manner in which human
beings construct, experience, and think about the "occult." It
brings together anthropologists, philosophers, and sociologists,
from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, to engage the
metaphysical properties of "witchcraft" and "sorcery" and to
explore their manifestations in people's lived experiences.
While many Africanist scholars shun the analysis of "witchcraft" as
an appropriate domain of investigation, the experiences, thoughts,
activities, and powers that "witchcraft" encompasses have become
increasingly the source of interest and debate. Concepts of
witchcraft and the phenomena to which they are applied express
something fundamental to the human condition and have their
equation in the logic of other human practices such as racism and
its various crafts. Thus, the focus on "witchcraft" is not just a
concern with the occult, but a manifestation of the convergence of
interest in mediating and transcending disciplinary domains.
The contributors to this volume embrace the challenge of exploring
"witchcraft" as a mode of experiencing and explaining human
circumstances as well as confronting the limitations of their own
intellectual traditions and paradigms. The range of their
explorations takes us in new directions, making use not only of
their academic training but also of their personal experiences, to
reframe the conceptual terrain of the "occult" and the
epistemological orientations of their various academic fields of
inquiry.
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