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Book Navaho Witchcraft

Download or read book Navaho Witchcraft written by Clyde Kluckhohn and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hand Trembling  Frenzy Witchcraft  and Moth Madness

Download or read book Hand Trembling Frenzy Witchcraft and Moth Madness written by Jerrold E. Levy and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to traditional Navajo belief, seizures are the result of sibling incest, sexual witchcraft, or possession by a supernatural spirit—associations that have kept such disorders from being known outside Navajo families. This new study is concerned with discovering why the Navajos have accorded seizures such importance and determining their meaning in the larger context of Navajo culture. The book is based on a 14-year study of some 40 Navajo patients and on an epidemiological survey among the Navajos and among three Pueblo tribes.

Book Navaho Symbols of Healing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald Sandner
  • Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
  • Release : 1991-06
  • ISBN : 9780892814343
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Navaho Symbols of Healing written by Donald Sandner and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1991-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jungian-trained psychiatrist explores ancient Navaho methods of healing that use vibrant imagery to bring the psyche into harmony with natural forces.

Book Bloodsucking Witchcraft

Download or read book Bloodsucking Witchcraft written by Hugo G. Nutini and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rural areas of south-central Mexico, there are believed to be witches who transform themselves into animals in order to suck the blood from the necks of sleeping infants. This book analyzes beliefs held by the great majority of the population of rural Tlaxcala a generation ago and chronicles its drastic transformation since then. "The most comprehensive statement on this centrally important ethnographic phenomenon in the last forty years. It bears ready comparison with the two great classics, Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft Among the Azande and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft."—Henry H. Selby

Book The Navaho

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clyde Kluckhohn
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN : 9780674606036
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Navaho written by Clyde Kluckhohn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors review Navaho history from archaeological times to the present, and then present Navaho life today. This book presents not only a study of Navaho life, however; it is an impartial discussion of an interesting experiment in government administration of a dependent people.

Book Bloodsucking Witchcraft

Download or read book Bloodsucking Witchcraft written by Hugo G. Nutini and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rural areas of south-central Mexico, there are believed to be witches who transform themselves into animals in order to suck the blood from the necks of sleeping infants. This book analyzes beliefs held by the great majority of the population of rural Tlaxcala a generation ago and chronicles its drastic transformation since then. "The most comprehensive statement on this centrally important ethnographic phenomenon in the last forty years. It bears ready comparison with the two great classics, Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft Among the Azande and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft."ÑHenry H. Selby

Book Navaho Witchcraft

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Navaho Witchcraft written by Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Navajo Legacy

Download or read book A Navajo Legacy written by John Holiday and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the second part of the book, Holiday details the family and tribal teachings he has acquired over a long life. He tells his grandparents' stories of the Long Walk era, discusses local attitudes about the land, relates Navajo religious stories, and recounts his training as a medicine man. All of Holiday's experiences and teachings reflect the thoughts of a traditional practitioner who has found in life both beauty and lessons for future generations."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Encyclopedia of Witches  Witchcraft and Wicca

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Witches Witchcraft and Wicca written by Rosemary Guiley and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous editions:"Clearly the best reference work on the subject now available."

Book The Anthropology of Religion  Magic  and Witchcraft    Pearson eText

Download or read book The Anthropology of Religion Magic and Witchcraft Pearson eText written by Rebecca L Stein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book emphasizes the major concepts of both anthropology and the anthropology of religion and examines religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective while incorporating key theoretical concepts. It is aimed at students encountering anthropology for the first time.

Book Navajo Lifeways

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780806133102
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Navajo Lifeways written by Maureen Trudelle Schwarz and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I think what is always really amazing to me is that Navajo are never amazed by anything that happens. Because it is like in a lot of our stories they are already there."--Sunny Dooley, Navajo Storyteller During the final decade of the twentieth century, Navajo people had to confront a number of challenges, from unexplained illness, the effects of uranium mining, and problem drinking to threats to their land rights and spirituality. Yet no matter how alarming these issues, Navajo people made sense of them by drawing guidance from what they regarded as their charter for life, their origin stories. Through extensive interviews, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz allows Navajo to speak for themselves on the ways they find to respond to crises and chronic issues. In capturing what Navajo say and think about themselves, Schwarz presents this southwestern people's perceptions, values, and sense of place in the world.

Book Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe written by Jonathan Barry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important collection brings together both established figures and new researchers to offer fresh perspectives on the ever-controversial subject of the history of witchcraft. Using Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic as a starting point, the contributors explore the changes of the last twenty-five years in the understanding of early modern witchcraft, and suggest new approaches, especially concerning the cultural dimensions of the subject. Witchcraft cases must be understood as power struggles, over gender and ideology as well as social relationships, with a crucial role played by alternative representations. Witchcraft was always a contested idea, never fully established in early modern culture but much harder to dislodge than has usually been assumed. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France, and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.

Book Classic Anthropology

Download or read book Classic Anthropology written by John William Bennett and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Anthropology is Bennett's label for the work produced by anthropologists during the period 1915-1955, which many believe represents the most productive era in the discipline's history. It is also one that can never be repeated, given the fact that most of anthropology's basic data - the ideas and customs of tribal peoples - have been extinguished or greatly transformed by modernization and nationalization. The book is composed of some fifteen essays. Among the issues examined are: the emergence of a functionalist viewpoint in ethnology; the difficulties of developing a theory of human behavior because of the focus on culture; the "search" for concepts of culture to serve specialized needs; the neglect of social psychology by the "culture and personality" field; how value judgments emerged, willy-nilly - or conversely, were neglected, in ethnological research; how applied anthropology was challenged by "Action Anthropology"; and how the interdisciplinary anthropology of the late 1940s was submerged in the postwar effort to return the discipline to traditionalroots. Individual anthropologists whose work is examined include, among others. Bronislaw Malinowski, Leslie Spier, Alfred Kroeber, Ralph Linton, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Clyde Kluckhohn, Gregory Bateson, and Walter Taylor.

Book The Witch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald Hutton
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2017-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300229046
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book The Witch written by Ronald Hutton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft

Book The Scottish Witch Hunt in Context

Download or read book The Scottish Witch Hunt in Context written by Julian Goodare and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-16th century to the early 18th. It particularly emphasizes the later stages, since scholars are now as keen to explain why witch-hunting declined as why it occurred. There are studies of particular witchcraft panics, including a reassessment of the role of King James VI. The book thus covers a wide range of topics concerned with Scottish witch-hunting - and also places it in the context of other topics: gender relations, folklore, magic and healing, and moral regulation by church and state.

Book Religious Studies and Theology

Download or read book Religious Studies and Theology written by Helen Katharine Bond and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though they are intimately related, most textbooks cover either religious studies or theology, leaving students lacking in exposure to one or the other of these associated disciplines. Religious Studies and Theology: An Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to both subjects in one inclusive volume. The text is written in an accessible style and is meant for beginning students and all those interested in learning about these fields. It is divided into six sections, including Theories of Religion; World Religions; Biblical Studies; Practical Theology; Systematic Theology; and The Philosophy of Religion. The volume also contains a guide for further reading as well as boxes to explain key terms. Offering thorough and cutting-edge coverage of all aspects of these fields, it is the only introduction to the whole of religious studies and theology in a single-volume format. Contributors: Douglas J. Davies, Seth D. Kunin, Hugh Goddard, Martin A. Mills, Matthew Wood, F. Michael Perko, Paul Ellingworth, Ken Aitken, Helen K. Bond, John Swinton, Henry R. Sefton, Francesca Aran Murphy, and Derek Cross.