Ethnographic Fieldwork
Hardback
Publication Date: 21/12/2016
The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia. Based on field research conducted at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it examines witchcraft in the region from folkloristic, anthropological, as well as historical, perspectives. Witchcraft is presented as part of social reality, strongly related to misfortune and involved in social relationships. The reality of the ascribed bewitching deeds, psychological mechanisms that may help bewitchment to work, circumstances in which bewitchment narratives can be mobilised, reasons for a person to acquire a reputation of the witch in the entire community, and the role that unwitchers fulfilled in the community, are but a few of the many topics discussed. In addition, the intertwinement of social witchcraft with narratives of supernatural experiences, closely associated with supernatural beings of European folklore, forming part of the overall witchcraft discourse in the area, is explored.
- ISBN:
- 9781137372499
- 9781137372499
- Category:
- Witchcraft
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 21-12-2016
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 454
- Dimensions (mm):
- 210x148x25mm
- Weight:
- 7.02kg
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