Deadly Words Witchcraft in the Bocage

Name: Deadly Words Witchcraft in the Bocage
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ISBN: 9780521297875

ISBN-10: 0521297877

ISBN-13: 9780521297875

Edition: 1980

Authors: Jeanne Favret-Saada, Catherine Cullen

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This book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduces a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enwuiries, suggesting that a full knowledge of witchcraft involves being 'caught up' in it oneself. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes: a heifer dies, the wife has a miscarriage, the child is covered in spots, the car runs into a ditch, the milk cannot be churned, the geese become panic-stricken, or the bride-to-be wastes away. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/4/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.06" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Jeanne Favret-Saada is a French anthropologist and the author of many books, including Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage.




There Must Be a Subject



The Way Things Are Said



The mirror-image of an academic



Words spoken with insistence



When words wage war



Between 'Caught' and Catching



Those who haven't been caught can't talk about it



A name added to a position



Taking one's distances from whom (or what)?



When the Text Has its Own Foreword



The Realm of Secrecy



Someone Must Be Credulous



Tempted By the Impossible



The Less One Talks, The Less One Is Caught



Telling It All



If You Could Do Something



A bewitched in hospital



She a magician?



The misunderstanding



Impotent against impotence



The Omnipotent Witch



The imperishable bastard



Speaking



Touching



Looking



A death at the crossroads



Ex post facto



Taking Over



Inexplicable misfortunes



The other witch



To Return Evil for Evil



Madame Marie from Alenï¿½on



Madame Marie from Izï¿½



If you feel capable



Mid-way Speculations



Concepts and presuppositions



Attack by witchcraft and its warding off


Appendces


References