Bloodsucking Witchcraft: An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic Supernaturalism in Rural TlaxcalaUniversity of Arizona Press, 1993 - 476 páginas 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 |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Aftereffects and the Psychological Context of the Postsucking | 10 |
Municipios Surrounding La Malintzi Volcano | 37 |
in Rural Tlaxcala | 39 |
The Belief System and Structural Context of Bloodsucking | 54 |
The Syncretic and Historical Development of Anthropomorphic | 80 |
The Comparative Distribution and Definition of Witchcraft | 117 |
Anatomy of a Bloodsucking Witchcraft Epidemic | 132 |
The Diagnostic and Etiological Analysis | 226 |
Social and Psychological Manipulations and the Ex Post Facto | 264 |
Period | 302 |
The Social and Psychological Functions of Bloodsucking | 353 |
An Epistemological Approach to the Study of Magic | 371 |
Conclusions | 400 |
Notes | 437 |
459 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Bloodsucking Witchcraft: An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic ... Hugo G. Nutini Vista previa limitada - 1993 |
Bloodsucking Witchcraft: An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic ... Hugo G. Nutini,John M. Roberts Vista previa limitada - 2019 |
Bloodsucking Witchcraft: An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic ... Hugo G. Nutini,John M. Roberts Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
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