Jeanne Favret-Saada's Minimal Ontology: Belief and Disbelief of Mystical Forces, Perilous Conditions, and the Opacity of Being
This article explores mystical belief and disbelief in Jeanne Favret-Saada's ethnography of Bocage witchcraft in relation to the ontological turn in anthropology. The ethnographic archive provides numerous examples in which natives display seemingly contradictory practices of belief and disbeli...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Berghahn
[2016]
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Religion and society
Year: 2016, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 68-82 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Favret-Saada, Jeanne 1934-
/ Belief in witches
/ Contradiction
/ Ontology
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| Further subjects: | B
Belief
B structural functionalism B Ontology B mystical forces B Violence B Death B ontological turn B Disbelief |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |