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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 | + | * Witchcraft and sorcery |
* 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 " | ||
- | Witchcraft exist in an equilibrium, | + | Witchcraft exist in an equilibrium, |
- | maintaining social equilibrium. | + | |
## Witchcraft has not gone away | ## Witchcraft has not gone away |