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The empty seashell : witchcraft and doubt on an Indonesian island /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bubandt, Nils (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Witchcraft > Indonesia > Halmahera.
Ethnology > Indonesia > Halmahera.
Belief and doubt.
Halmahera (Indonesia) > Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the shell of the nautilus
  • Witchcraft, doubt, and aporia
  • The origins of witchcraft and the doubts of tradition
  • Hopes, conversion, and millennial politics
  • Christianity and deception
  • The viscerality of witchcraft and the corporeality of the world
  • New Order modern
  • Subjectivity, exchange, opacity
  • Technology, money, and the futures of witchcraft.