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The Empty Seashell

Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island

Bubandt, Nils

The Empty Seashell

The Empty Seashell

Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island

The Empty Seashell

 

"Explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable"-


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Beschrijving The Empty Seashell

In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable.


ISBN
9780801452956
Pagina's
293
Verschenen
NUR
741
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Nederlands
Uitgever
Cornell Univ Pr