Rethinking the anthropology of magic and witchcraft, Stevens, Jr., Phillips
Автор: Anderson, Lorriane ; Diaz, Juliet ; Lukovic, Tijan Название: Seasons of the Witch - Mabon Oracle: (44 Gilded Cards and 144-Page Full-Color Guidebook) ISBN: 1922579750 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781922579751 Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK Рейтинг: Цена: 3135.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Mabon honours the Earth and is a celebration of balance, equality and harmony. As the wheel of the year comes to an end, Mabon is a good time to set intentions, release the tension and set new personal goals. This is a beautifully designed book and card deck set. Each of the 44 cards in this oracle deck is a seed of spiritual guidance, inspired by ancient Mabon traditions, to find answers to your most profound questions.
Unlike the previous decks in the series, the cards in this deck offer intuitive messages rather than invocations. These messages give the user a glimpse of the card's inner meaning, making this oracle an excellent way for beginners to develop their own intuitive reading skills. These cards align with your energy, helping you to unlock your inner wisdom with the help of powerful spiritual forces. Along with thoughtful meanings are powerful word spells, to invoke the energy of each card and to send your intentions of spiritual well-being out into the universe.
Автор: Diaz, Juliet ; Anderson, Lorriane Название: Seasons of the Witch: Yule Oracle: 44 Gilded Cards and 144-Page Book ISBN: 1925946223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781925946222 Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK Рейтинг: Цена: 2612.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (более 5-х шт.) Описание: Embrace the season of Yule in all its splendor, mystery, and magic.
As the wheel of year turns, Yule reminds us of warmth, happiness, and time to be thankful for all that we have. For centuries ancient healers have celebrated the restorative energy of the Yuletide festival, the traditional harsh winters reminding us of our innate ability to weather storms and find support and comfort with loved ones.
In Seasons of the Witch: Yule Oracle you’ll discover 44 healing messages to align you with the divine wisdom of the year’s darkest night and the joyful celebration associated with the winter holidays. This oracle is your path to deep reflection and tranquility—a promise to the brighter days to come.
Автор: Lorriane Anderson Название: The Seasons of the Witch: Samhain Journal ISBN: 1922785644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781922785640 Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK Рейтинг: Цена: 3135.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Название: The Science of Demons ISBN: 1138571830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138571839 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 4898.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examining individual authors, this book reveals the many purposes to which the devil could be put, both during the late medieval fight against heresy and the age of Reformations. It explores what it was like to live with demons, and how identities were constructed out of the battle against them.
Автор: Fassin Didier Название: Enforcing Order ISBN: 0745664806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745664804 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities.
Название: Oxford illustrated history of witchcraft and magic ISBN: 0192897780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192897787 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The 4000-year story of witchcraft and magic - from the ancient world to Harry Potter... and beyond...
Автор: Davies Owen Название: Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic ISBN: 019960844X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199608447 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: от 3231.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: The 4000-year story of witchcraft and magic - from the ancient world to Harry Potter... and beyond...
Science Interrupted examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies. Timothy G. McLellan offers a theoretical framework for analyzing the formal procedural work of Chinese bureaucracy—work that is overlooked when China scholars restrict their gaze to the informal and interpersonal channels through which bureaucracy is often navigated.
Homing in on an agroforestry research organization in southwest China, the author takes the experiences of the organization's staff in navigating diverse international funding regimes and authoritarian state institutions as entry points for understanding the pervasiveness of bureaucracy in contemporary science. He asks: What if we take the tools, sensibilities, and practices of bureaucracies seriously not only as objects of critique but as resources for re-thinking scientific practice?
Extending a mode of anthropological research in which ethnography serves as source of theory as well as source of data, Science Interrupted thinks with, and not only against, bureaucracy. McLellan shows that ethnographic engagement with bureaucracy enables us to imagine more democratic and more collaborative modes of scientific practice.
Автор: Emily Mendenhall Название: Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV ISBN: 1501738437 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501738432 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4383.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place. Mendenhall argues that the link between sugar and diabetes overshadows the ways in which underlying biological processes linking hunger, oppression, trauma, unbridled stress, and chronic mental distress produce diabetes. The life history narratives in the book show how deeply embedded these factors are in the ways diabetes is experienced and (re)produced among poor communities around the world.
Rethinking Diabetes focuses on the stories of women living with diabetes near or below the poverty line in urban settings in the United States, India, South Africa, and Kenya. Mendenhall shows how women's experiences of living with diabetes cannot be dissociated from their social responsibilities of caregiving, demanding family roles, expectations, and gendered experiences of violence that often displace their ability to care for themselves first. These case studies reveal the ways in which a global story of diabetes overlooks the unique social, political, and cultural factors that produce syndemic diabetes differently across contexts.
From the case studies, Rethinking Diabetes clearly provides some important parallels for scholars to consider: significant social and economic inequalities, health systems that are a mix of public and private (with substandard provisions for low-income patients), and rising diabetes incidence and prevalence. At the same time, Mendenhall asks us to unpack how social, cultural, and epidemiological factors shape people's experiences and why we need to take these differences seriously when we think about what drives diabetes and how it affects the lives of the poor.
In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or “dark shamanism.” Anthropological reflections on South American shamanism have tended to emphasize shamans’ healing powers and positive influence. This collection challenges that assumption by showing that dark shamans are, in many Amazonian cultures, quite different from shamanic healers and prophets. Assault sorcery, in particular, involves violence resulting in physical harm or even death. While highlighting the distinctiveness of such practices, In Darkness and Secrecy reveals them as no less relevant to the continuation of culture and society than curing and prophecy. The contributors suggest that the persistence of dark shamanism can be understood as a form of engagement with modernity.
These essays, by leading anthropologists of South American shamanism, consider assault sorcery as it is practiced in parts of Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, and Peru. They analyze the social and political dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery and their relation to cosmology, mythology, ritual, and other forms of symbolic violence and aggression in each society studied. They also discuss the relations of witchcraft and sorcery to interethnic contact and the ways that shamanic power may be co-opted by the state. In Darkness and Secrecy includes reflections on the ethical and practical implications of ethnographic investigation of violent cultural practices.
Contributors. Dominique Buchillet, Carlos Fausto, Michael Heckenberger, Elsje Lagrou, E. Jean Langdon, George Mentore, Donald Pollock, Fernando Santos-Granero, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern, Márnio Teixeira-Pinto, Silvia Vidal, Neil L. Whitehead, Johannes Wilbert, Robin Wright
Witchcraft Dialogues analyzes the complex manner in which human beings construct, experience, and think about the “occult.” It brings together anthropologists, philosophers, and sociologists, from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, to engage the metaphysical properties of “witchcraft” and “sorcery” and to explore their manifestations in people’s lived experiences.
While many Africanist scholars shun the analysis of “witchcraft” as an appropriate domain of investigation, the experiences, thoughts, activities, and powers that “witchcraft” encompasses have become increasingly the source of interest and debate. Concepts of witchcraft and the phenomena to which they are applied express something fundamental to the human condition and have their equation in the logic of other human practices such as racism and its various crafts. Thus, the focus on “witchcraft” is not just a concern with the occult, but a manifestation of the convergence of interest in mediating and transcending disciplinary domains.
The contributors to this volume embrace the challenge of exploring “witchcraft” as a mode of experiencing and explaining human circumstances as well as confronting the limitations of their own intellectual traditions and paradigms. The range of their explorations takes us in new directions, making use not only of their academic training but also of their personal experiences, to reframe the conceptual terrain of the “occult” and the epistemological orientations of their various academic fields of inquiry.
Автор: Helen A. Berger Название: Witchcraft and Magic: Contemporary North America ISBN: 0812219716 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812219715 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Magic, always part of the occult underground in North America, has experienced a resurgence since the 1960s. Although most contemporary magical religions have come from abroad, they have found fertile ground in which to develop in North America. Who are today's believers in Witchcraft and how do they worship? Alternative spiritual paths have increased the ranks of followers dramatically, particularly among well-educated middle-class individuals. Witchcraft and Magic conveys the richness of magical religious experiences found in today's culture, covering the continent of North America and the Caribbean. These original essays survey current and historical issues pertinent to religions that incorporate magical or occult beliefs and practices, and they examine contemporary responses to these religions. The relationship between Witchcraft and Neopaganism is explored, as is their intersection with established groups practicing goddess worship. Recent years have seen the growth in New Age magic and Afro-Caribbean religions, and these developments are also addressed in this volume. All the religions covered offer adherents an alternative worldview and rituals that are aimed at helping individuals redefine themselves and make their interactions with the environment more empowered. Many modern occult religions share an absence of dogma or central authority to determine orthodoxy, and have become a contemporary experience embracing modern concerns like feminism, environmentalism, civil rights, and gay rights. Afro-Caribbean religions such as Santería, Palo, and Curanderismo, which do have a more developed dogma and authority structure, offer their followers a religion steeped in African and Hispanic traditions. Responses to the growth of magical religions have varied, from acceptance to an unfounded concern about the growth of a satanic underground. And, as magical religions have flourished, increased interest has resulted in a growing commercialization, with its threat of trivialization.
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