The witch studies reader
The past decade has seen a resurgence of the esoteric and the occult into the Western mainstream, often as a queer feminist way to claim the power of the irrational and the "natural" world, and as a way of integrating critiques of colonial rationality into everyday practices. At the same t...
| Subtitles: | Witch studies |
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| Contributors: | ; |
| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Durham London
Duke University Press
2025
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| In: | Year: 2025 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Belief in witches
/ Feminism
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| Further subjects: | B
Occultism
Social aspects
B Collection of essays B Witchcraft B Feminist Spirituality B Witches |
| Summary: | The past decade has seen a resurgence of the esoteric and the occult into the Western mainstream, often as a queer feminist way to claim the power of the irrational and the "natural" world, and as a way of integrating critiques of colonial rationality into everyday practices. At the same time, poor, indigenous, and/or aging women across the global South are persecuted and even murdered for their real and imagined associations with practices that also fall under the umbrella of witchcraft. "The Witch Studies Reader" attempts to hold both of these truths together, offering a transnational feminist perspective on the power and the persecution of the witch, taking into account the vastly different national, political, economic, and cultural contexts in which she is being claimed and repudiated. Essays topics range from matrilinear knowledge sharing in Appalachia and witchy women in 1960s rock counter-culture to witch killings in Tanzania and the "decolonial love" of Romani witchcraft practices closed to outsiders. This pathbreaking and field-defining transnational feminist examination of witches and witchcraft is the first collection to examine witchcraft from a critical feminist perspective that decenters Europe and departs from anthropological and exoticizing or pathologizing writing on witchcraft in the global south |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 507 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4780-3135-2 978-1-4780-2813-0 |
