Anthropology of the prejudice: witchcraft 3402-00APCZ-OG
The background for the course is the comparative corpus of writings on witchcraft edited by Elaine G. Breslaw: Witches of the Atlantic World. A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook, New York University Press, NY 2000. It consists of succinct, short parts of classic source texts and commentaries on the phenomenon, seen in the religious, medical - psychological, gender and legal perspectives.
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Type of course
general courses
Bibliography
Elaine G. Breslaw [red.] Witches of the Atlantic World. A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook, New York University Press, NY 2000.
B. Baranowski O hultajach, wiedźmach i wszetecznicach. Szkice z obyczajów XVII i XVIII w., Łódź, 1988
B. Levack Polowanie na czarownice w Europie wczesno nowożytnej, Wrocław, 2009
M. Harris, Krowy, świnie, wojny i czarownice, Warszawa, 1985
P. Boyer, S. Nissenbaum, Salem Possesed: The Social Origin Of Witchcraft
P. Stoller Fusion of the Words. An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of Niger