Ethnographic Sorcery

Name: Ethnographic Sorcery
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ISBN: 9780226893983

ISBN-10: 0226893987

ISBN-13: 9780226893983

Edition: 2007

Authors: Harry G. West

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Tracy J. Luedke is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern Illinois University.Harry G. West is lecturer in Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is author of Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique.



Misunderstanding


In search of the forward-looking peasant


"This must be studied scientifically"


Belief as metaphor


"The problem may lie there"


Whose metaphors?


Powers of perspective and persuasion


Making meaning, making the world


Masked and dangerous


Articulated visions


Bridging domains


Working with indeterminacy


Doctors Kalamatatu


Ethnographic sorcery


Circular arguments