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Автор: Baily F. G., Bailey F. G.
Название: Witch-Hunt: Or the Triumph of Morality
ISBN: 9780801482106
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

Антропология

ISBN-10: 0801482100
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Вес: 0.30 кг.
Дата издания: 11.02.2013
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 20 halftones
Размер: 216 x 140 x 13
Читательская аудитория: Undergraduate
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Поставляется из: Англии
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In the village of Bisipara in eastern India, an anthropologist is witness to a drama when a young girl takes a fever and quickly dies. The villagers find Susillas death suspicious and fear that she was possessed. Holding an investigation to find someone to blame, they carry out a hurried inquiry because the stage must be cleared for the annual celebration of the birthday of the god Sri Ramchandro. However, they eventually agree on the identity of a culprit an extract from him a large fine.

F.G. Bailey, who was doing fieldwork in Bisipara in the 1950s, tells what it was like to be living there during this witch-hunt. As his narrative unfolds, we sense the very texture of the villagers lives—their caste relationships, occupations, kinship networks, and religious practices. We become familiar with the sites, sounds, and smells of Bisipara and with many of the village men and women and we learn their ideas of health and disease, their practice of medicine and burial customs, their ways of resolving discord.

The authors commentary opens the curtain on a larger and more complicated scene. It portrays a community in the process of change: from one aspect, the offender is seen as a heroic individual who has broken from the chains of the past, a dissenter standing up for his rights against an entrenched and conservative establishment. From the opposite point of view he is a troublemaker who rejects the moral order on which society and the good life depend, a man who has trespassed outside his proper domain. From Baileys neutral perspective, the offenders conduct threaten those in power; their determined and successful effort to punish him was an attempt to protect their own privileged position. In doing so, of course, they could say that they were defending the moral order of their community.

Bailey moves easily between field notes and memory as he takes a new look at his first impressions and reflects on what he has learned. His elegant book is a powerful reassessment of anthropologys most enduring themes and debates which will imprint on the readers mind a vivid image of a place and its people.

Witch-Hunt: Or the Triumph of Morality, Baily F. G., Bailey F. G.