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9780226893976

Ethnographic Sorcery

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226893976

  • ISBN10:

    0226893979

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-06-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it. While conducting research among these Muedans, anthropologist Harry G. West made a revealing discoveryfor many of them, West's efforts to elaborate an ethnographic vision of their world was itself a form of sorcery. InEthnographic Sorcery, West explores the fascinating issues provoked by this equation. A key theme of West's research into sorcery is that one sorcerer's claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers. After West's attempt to construct a metaphorical interpretation of Muedan assertions that the lions prowling their villages are fabricated by sorcerers is disputed by his Muedan research collaborators, West realized that ethnography and sorcery indeed have much in common. Rather than abandoning ethnography, West draws inspiration from this connection, arguing that anthropologists, along with the people they study, can scarcely avoid interpreting the world they inhabit, and that we are all, inescapably, ethnographic sorcerers.

Author Biography

Harry G. West is lecturer in social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and the author of Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mueda, Mozambique, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Misunderstandingp. 1
In search of the forward-looking peasantp. 6
"This must be studied scientifically"p. 12
Belief as metaphorp. 19
"The problem may lie there"p. 26
Whose metaphors?p. 35
Powers of perspective and persuasionp. 39
Making meaning, making the worldp. 45
Masked and dangerousp. 49
Articulated visionsp. 55
Bridging domainsp. 61
Working with indeterminacyp. 65
Doctors Kalamatatup. 71
Ethnographic sorceryp. 77
Circular argumentsp. 86
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