Deadly words : witchcraft in the bocage
著者
書誌事項
Deadly words : witchcraft in the bocage
Cambridge University Press , Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, 1980
- : pbk
- タイトル別名
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Mots, la mort, les sorts
- 統一タイトル
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Mots, la mort, les sorts
大学図書館所蔵 全19件
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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