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Witch hunts : culture, patriarchy, and structural transformation / Govind Kelkar, Dev Nathan ; with contributions from Tara Ahluwalia [and 7 others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelkar, Govind, 1939- author.
- Nathan, Dev, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft--Social aspects.
- Witchcraft.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 272 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural, and socio-economic struggles over acute structural, economic, and social transformations in both the formation of gendered class societies and that of patriarchal capitalism. The book combines political economy with gender and cultural analysis to explain the articulation of cultural beliefs about women as causing harm, and struggles over patriarchy in periods of structural economic transformation. Starting with field data from India and South-east Asia, the analysis incorporates a large body of works on Africa, the Americas, and early modern Europe. Witch Hunts is a scholarly analysis of the human rights violation of women and its correction through changes in beliefs, masculinity, knowledge practices, and adaptation in structural transformation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- CULTURE
- 2. Culture and the Epistemology of Belief in Witchcraft
- WITCH HUNTS IN INDIA
- 3. Witch Persecutions and Resistance in India
- 4. Factors in Witch Hunts
- PATRIARCHY
- 5. A Connected History of Patriarchy and Witch Hunts
- 6. Creating Patriarchy
- 7. Witch Hunting as Women Hunting in Early Modern Europe
- STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION
- 8. Accumulation, Dispossession, and Persecution
- 9. Witch Hunts in Development: Policy and Practice
- CONCLUSIONS
- 10. Articulations
- 11. Policies for Ending Witch Hunts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Govind, Kelkar, Witch hunts
- ISBN:
- 9781108490511
- 1108490514
- OCLC:
- 1157460559
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