Naming the Witch

by James T. Siegel

Book Overview

Naming the Witch explores the recent series of witchcraft accusations and killings in East Java, which spread as the Suharto regime slipped into crisis and then fell. After many years of ethnographic work focusing on the origins and nature of violence in Indonesia, Siegel came to the conclusion that previous anthropological explanations of witchcraft and magic, mostly based on sociological conceptions but also including the work of E.E...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804751951
• ISBN13: 9780804751957
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.9"