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1002:4.1.1 [2019/10/17 20:35] – Ryan Schram (admin)1002:4.1.1 [2019/10/20 20:36] – [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**:
  
-* 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 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 is a collective representation of deviance itself, the "standardized nightmare" of the society (Wilson 1951: 313).