The empty seashell: witchcraft and doubt on an Indonesian island

"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 coasta...

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Main Author: Bubandt, Nils 1964- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Ithaca; London Cornell University Press 2014
In:Year: 2014
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Indonesia / Halmahera / Belief in witches
Further subjects:B Ethnology (Indonesia) (Halmahera)
B Belief and doubt
B Witchcraft (Indonesia) (Halmahera)
B Halmahera (Indonesia) Religion

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