Deadly words : witchcraft in the bocage

著者

• Favret-Saada, Jeanne

書誌事項

Deadly words : witchcraft in the bocage

Jeanne Favret-Saada ; translated by Catherine Cullen

Cambridge University Press , Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, 1980

• : pbk

タイトル別名

Mots, la mort, les sorts

統一タイトル

Mots, la mort, les sorts

注記

Translation of Les mots, la mort, les sorts

Bibliography: p. 272-273

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enquiries, 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. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a touch or a look, and whose 'power' comes from a book of spells inherited from an ancestor. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually fatal.

目次

• Part I. There Must Be a Subject
• Section 1. The Way Things Are Said: 1. The mirror-image of an academic
• 2. Words spoken with insistence
• 3. When words wage war
• Section 2. Between 'Caught' and Catching: 1. Those who haven't been caught can't talk about it
• 2. A name added to a position
• 3. Taking one's distances from whom (or what)?
• Section 3. When the Text Has its Own Foreword
• Part II. The Realm of Secrecy
• Section 4. Someone Must Be Credulous
• Section 5. Tempted By the Impossible
• Section 6. The Less One Talks, The Less One Is Caught
• Part III. Telling It All
• Section 7. If You Could Do Something: 1. A bewitched in hospital
• 2. She a magician?
• 3. The misunderstanding
• 4. Impotent against impotence
• Section 8. The Omnipotent Witch: 1. The imperishable bastard
• 2. Speaking
• 3. Touching
• 4. Looking
• 5. A death at the crossroads
• 6. Ex post facto
• Section 9. Taking Over: 1. Inexplicable misfortunes
• 2. The other witch
• Section 10. To Return Evil for Evil: 1. Madame Marie from Alencon
• 2. Madame Marie from Ize
• 3. If you feel capable
• Section 11. Mid-way Speculations: 1. Concepts and presuppositions
• 2. Attack by witchcraft and its warding off
• Appendices
• References.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA06279899
• ISBN:
  • 0521223172
  • 0521297877
• LCCN: 79041607
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 原本言語コード: fre
• 出版地: Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York,Paris
• ページ数/冊数: vii, 273 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : BF1582
  • DC19 : 133.4/3/09441
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Witchcraft -- France