Witchcraft Accusations from Central India: The Fragmented Urn

by Helen Macdonald

Book Overview

This book unravels the institutions surrounding witchcraft in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh through theoretical and empirical research on witchcraft, violence and modernity in contemporary times. The author pieces together 'fragments' of stories gathered utilising ethnographic methods to examine the meanings associated with witches and witchcraft, and how they connect with social relations, gender, notions of agency, law, media and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367628805
• ISBN13: 9780367628802
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"