Making Witches
"Making Witches is beautifully written and accessible to a broad audience. It could easily be used in introductory folklore classes and those on the anthropology of religion, to illustrate how seemingly incomprehensible belief systems operate in contexts more ordinary and close to home" Sabina Magliocco, California State University, Northridge "Full of information, and unique information at that, in subject, research method, and contextualization." Newfoundland Quarterly "Making Witches is marvellously well-written, engagingly organized and full of fascinating material. I loved this book." Pauline Greenhill, women's studies, University of Winnipeg
There is a little-known tradition of witch lore in Newfoundland culture. Those believed to have the power to influence the fortunes of others are not mythological characters but neighbours, relations, or even friends. Les mer
Making Witches shows that in storytelling communities with a rich legacy of witch lore, witch tradition has endured well into the twentieth century.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 208
- ISBN
- 9780773541054
- Utgivelsesår
- 2012
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
"Making Witches is beautifully written and accessible to a broad audience. It could easily be used in introductory folklore classes and those on the anthropology of religion, to illustrate how seemingly incomprehensible belief systems operate in contexts more ordinary and close to home" Sabina Magliocco, California State University, Northridge "Full of information, and unique information at that, in subject, research method, and contextualization." Newfoundland Quarterly "Making Witches is marvellously well-written, engagingly organized and full of fascinating material. I loved this book." Pauline Greenhill, women's studies, University of Winnipeg