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 Social anthropologists loved talking about witchcraft and sorcery. It seemed a perfect test case for their ideas about social **function**:
-* Witchcraft and sorcery functions in relation to ideas about egalitarianism. Only equals bewitch each other (Fortune 1932).
+* Witchcraft and sorcery function in relation to a society's egalitarian ideology. People bewitch their social equals out of jealousy that they might be gaining prestige and authority (Fortune 1932).
 * Witchcraft is a way of mediating social conflicts (Nadel 1952).
 * Witchcraft is a collective representation of deviance itself, the "standardized nightmare" of the society (Wilson 1951: 313).
-Witchcraft exist in an equilibrium, and is part of a process of
+Witchcraft exist in an equilibrium, and is part of a process of maintaining social equilibrium.
-maintaining social equilibrium.
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 Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (1937) 1976. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. Abridged edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-Fortune, R. F. 2013. Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific. Routledge.
+Fortune, R. F. (1932) 2013. Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge.
 Nadel, S. F. 1952. “Witchcraft in Four African Societies: An Essay in Comparison.” American Anthropologist 54 (1): 18–29. doi:10.1525/aa.1952.54.1.02a00040.