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1002:4.1.1 [2019/10/17 20:31] – [Functionalist explanations of society—You're soaking in them!] Ryan Schram (admin) | 1002:4.1.1 [2019/10/20 20:46] – [The function of witchcraft] Ryan Schram (admin) | ||
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Social anthropologists loved talking about witchcraft and sorcery. It seemed a perfect test case for their ideas about social **function**: | Social anthropologists loved talking about witchcraft and sorcery. It seemed a perfect test case for their ideas about social **function**: | ||
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* Witchcraft is a way of mediating social conflicts (Nadel 1952). | * Witchcraft is a way of mediating social conflicts (Nadel 1952). | ||
* Witchcraft is a collective representation of deviance itself, the " | * Witchcraft is a collective representation of deviance itself, the " | ||
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Some, like Comaroff and Comaroff (1999), argue that they are not a belief in magic at all, but a diagnosis of the real workings of neoliberal global capitalism in Africa. | Some, like Comaroff and Comaroff (1999), argue that they are not a belief in magic at all, but a diagnosis of the real workings of neoliberal global capitalism in Africa. | ||
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+ | Comaroff, Jean, and John L. Comaroff. 1999. “Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: | ||
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+ | Fortune, R. F. (1932) 2013. Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge. | ||
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+ | Nadel, S. F. 1952. “Witchcraft in Four African Societies: An Essay in Comparison.” American Anthropologist 54 (1): 18–29. doi: | ||
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+ | Wilson, Monica Hunter. 1951. “Witch Beliefs and Social Structure.” American Journal of Sociology 56 (4): 307–13. | ||
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