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A number of cases of serious child abuse have resulted from beliefs
that children may be possessed by evil spirits and may then be
given the power to bewitch others. Misfortune, failure, illness and
even death may be blamed on them. The 'cure', nowadays called
deliverance rather than exorcism, is to expel the spirits,
sometimes by violent means. This book draws together contributions
on aspects of possession and witchcraft from leading academics and
expert practitioners in the field. It has been put together
following conferences held by Inform, a charity that provides
accurate information on new religions as a public service. There is
no comparable information publicly available; this book is the
first of its kind. Eileen Barker, founder of Inform, introduces the
subject and Inform's Deputy Director goes on to detail the requests
the charity has answered in recent years on the subject of
children, possession and witchcraft. This book offers an invaluable
resource for readers, whether academic or practitioner -
particularly those in the fields of the safeguarding of children,
and their education, health and general welfare.
Audrey Richards (1899-1984) was a leading British anthropologist of
the twentieth century and the first woman president of the Royal
Anthropological Institute. Based on fieldwork conducted at a time
when the discipline was dominated by male anthropologists,
Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia is
widely hailed as a classic of anthropology and African and gender
studies. Underpinned by painstaking research carried out by
Richards among the Bemba people in northern Zambia in the 1930s,
Chisungu focuses on the initiation ceremonies for young Bemba
girls. Pioneering the study of women's rituals and challenging the
prevailing theory that rites of passage served merely to transfer
individuals from one status to another, Richards writes about the
incredibly rich and diverse aspects of ritual that characterised
Chisungu: its concern with matriliny; deference to elders; sex and
reproduction; the birth of children; ideas about the continuity
between past, present and future; and the centrality of emotional
conflict. On a deeper level, Chisungu is a crucial work for the
role it accords to the meaning of symbolism in explaining the
structure of society, paving the way for much subsequent
understanding of the role of symbolic meaning and kinship. This
Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Jessica
Johnson and an introduction by Jean La Fontaine.
Creative Lives and Works: Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy
Mair, Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach is a collection of interviews
conducted by one of England's leading social anthropologists and
historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40
years, the five conversations in this volume, are part of a larger
set of interviews that cut across various disciplines, from the
social sciences, the sciences to the performing and visual arts.
The current volume on five of England's foremost social
anthropologists is the second in the series of several such books.
These conversations and talks are interlaced with rich ethnography
and interpretations of distant civilizations and the very real
practices that enable these tribal societies and cultures to
thrive. There are several teaching moments in these engaging
conversations which are further enriched by detailed personal
experiences that each of the five shares. Sir Raymond Firth gives
us an insight into his Polynesian experience, while Audrey Richards
and Lucy Mair recall their days in the African hinterland. Meyer
Fortes's account of his tribal study, yet again in the African
subcontinent, is mesmeric, while Sir Edmund Leach's Southeast Asian
encounters are just as enthralling. Immensely riveting as
conversations, this collection gives one a flavour of how tribal
societies live and work. The book will be of enormous value not
just to those interested in learning about tribal societies and
cultures, and those interested in History, Culture Studies, but
also to those curious to gather knowledge about other cultures.
Please note: This title is co-published with Social Science Press,
New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the
Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri
Lanka.
A number of cases of serious child abuse have resulted from beliefs
that children may be possessed by evil spirits and may then be
given the power to bewitch others. Misfortune, failure, illness and
even death may be blamed on them. The 'cure', nowadays called
deliverance rather than exorcism, is to expel the spirits,
sometimes by violent means. This book draws together contributions
on aspects of possession and witchcraft from leading academics and
expert practitioners in the field. It has been put together
following conferences held by Inform, a charity that provides
accurate information on new religions as a public service. There is
no comparable information publicly available; this book is the
first of its kind. Eileen Barker, founder of Inform, introduces the
subject and Inform's Deputy Director goes on to detail the requests
the charity has answered in recent years on the subject of
children, possession and witchcraft. This book offers an invaluable
resource for readers, whether academic or practitioner -
particularly those in the fields of the safeguarding of children,
and their education, health and general welfare.
Audrey Richards (1899-1984) was a leading British anthropologist of
the twentieth century and the first woman president of the Royal
Anthropological Institute. Based on fieldwork conducted at a time
when the discipline was dominated by male anthropologists,
Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia is
widely hailed as a classic of anthropology and African and gender
studies. Underpinned by painstaking research carried out by
Richards among the Bemba people in northern Zambia in the 1930s,
Chisungu focuses on the initiation ceremonies for young Bemba
girls. Pioneering the study of women's rituals and challenging the
prevailing theory that rites of passage served merely to transfer
individuals from one status to another, Richards writes about the
incredibly rich and diverse aspects of ritual that characterised
Chisungu: its concern with matriliny; deference to elders; sex and
reproduction; the birth of children; ideas about the continuity
between past, present and future; and the centrality of emotional
conflict. On a deeper level, Chisungu is a crucial work for the
role it accords to the meaning of symbolism in explaining the
structure of society, paving the way for much subsequent
understanding of the role of symbolic meaning and kinship. This
Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Jessica
Johnson and an introduction by Jean La Fontaine.
Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated
anthropologists as well as the general public. In this volume, Jean
La Fontaine explores the intersection of expert and lay
understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes.
The chapters touch on public scares about devil-worship,
misconceptions about human sacrifice and the use of body parts in
healing practices, and mistaken accusations of children practicing
witchcraft. Together, these cases demonstrate that comparison is a
powerful method of cultural understanding, but warns of the dangers
and mistaken conclusions that untrained ideas about other ways of
life can lead to.
Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated
anthropologists as well as the general public. In this volume, Jean
La Fontaine explores the intersection of expert and lay
understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes.
The chapters touch on public scares about devil-worship,
misconceptions about human sacrifice and the use of body parts in
healing practices, and mistaken accusations of children practicing
witchcraft. Together, these cases demonstrate that comparison is a
powerful method of cultural understanding, but warns of the dangers
and mistaken conclusions that untrained ideas about other ways of
life can lead to.
Inspired new translations of the work of one of the world's
greatest fabulists
Told in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95)
charming animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain
birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express his
penetrating insights into French society and the beasts found in
all of us. Norman R. Shapiro has been translating La Fontaine's
fables for over twenty years, capturing the original work's lively
mix of plain and archaic language. This newly complete translation
is destined to set the English standard for this work.
Awarded the Lewis Galantiere Prize by the American Translators
Association, 2008.
The first modern allegations of satanic sexual abuse surfaced in North America during the 1980s, followed a few years later by similar allegations in Britain. Professor La Fontaine, an anthropologist, has studied the literature on satanic abuse in England and conducted a detailed analysis of a number of actual cases. She found no evidence of devil worship. She concludes that behind the hysteria is a social movement, comparable to classic instances of witchcraft accusations and the witch hunts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
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