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Understanding witchcraft and sorcery in Southeast Asia / edited by C.W. Watson and Roy Ellen. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Canterbury International Symposium on Southeast Asian Studies (1st : 1989 : University of Kent)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft--Southeast Asia.
- Witchcraft.
- Magic--Southeast Asia.
- Magic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 222 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- The relativity of magical malevolence in urban Thailand / Louis Golomb
- Wichcraft, sorcery, fortune, and misfortune among Lisu highlanders of northern Thailand / E. Paul Durrenberger
- Witches, fortune, and misfortune among the Shan in northwestern Thailand / Nicola Tannenbaum
- Anger, anxiety, and sorcery / Roy Ellen
- Social and symbolic aspects of the witch among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia / Gregory Forth
- Observations on the practice of sorcery in Java / Ronny Nitibaskara
- Sorcery and the law in modern Indonesia / Karen Portier
- Knowledge, power, and personal misfortune in a Malay context / Michael G. Peletz
- Return to sender / John R. Bowen
- Perceptions from within / C.W. Watson.
- Notes:
- Rev. papers presented at the First Canterbury International Symposium on Southeast Asian Studies, held at the University of Kent, Sept. 25-28, 1989.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-8248-4046-1
- 0-585-32673-8
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