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Ethnographic Sorcery (Paperback, New edition)
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Ethnographic Sorcery (Paperback, New edition)
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According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern
Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority
of their own imaginative visions of it. While conducting research
among these Muedans, anthropologist Harry G. West made a revealing
discovery--for many of them, West's efforts to elaborate an
ethnographic vision of their world was itself a form of sorcery. In
"Ethnographic Sorcery," West explores the fascinating issues
provoked by this equation.
A key theme of West's research into sorcery is that one sorcerer's
claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers. After
West's attempt to construct a metaphorical interpretation of Muedan
assertions that the lions prowling their villages are fabricated by
sorcerers is disputed by his Muedan research collaborators, West
realized that ethnography and sorcery indeed have much in common.
Rather than abandoning ethnography, West draws inspiration from
this connection, arguing that anthropologists, along with the
people they study, can scarcely avoid interpreting the world they
inhabit, and that we are all, inescapably, ethnographic sorcerers.
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