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Salem possessed; the social origins of witchcraft / Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum.
LIBRA BF1576 .B6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyer, Paul S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft--Massachusetts--Salem.
- Witchcraft.
- Massachusetts--Salem.
- Porter family.
- Putnam family.
- Hekserij.
- Local Subjects:
- Hekserij.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1974.
- Contents:
- Prologue: What happened in 1692
- 1692 : some new perspectives
- In quest of community, 1639-1687
- Afflicted village, 1688-1697
- Salem Town and Salem Village : the dynamics of factional conflict
- Two families : the Porters and the Putnams
- Joseph and his brothers : a story of the Putnam family
- Samuel Parris : a pilgrim in Bethlehem
- Witchcraft and social identity
- Epilogue: To the eighteenth century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Boyer, Paul S. Salem possessed.
- ISBN:
- 0674785258
- 9780674785250
- OCLC:
- 851371
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