Encounters with Witchcraft and Witches - Brossura

Macfarlane, Prof Alan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1491064862 ISBN 13: 9781491064863

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Riassunto

This is a set of essays on the history and anthropology of witchcraft and witches by the author of 'Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England; a regional and comparative study'. It covers aspects of the history of English witchcraft from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and witchcraft beliefs and their decline in a mountain village in Nepal. The essays are republished from scattered sources and address one of the most curious episodes in human history, the belief that others can harm us through their malevolent thoughts.

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L'autore

Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1491064862
• ISBN 13: 9781491064863
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 134