Between the Living and the Dead

Éva Pócs (red.)
Titel
Between the Living and the Dead
Subtitel
A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age
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€ 108,00 excl. BTW
ISBN
9789639116184
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Hardback
Aantal pagina's
192
Taal
Engels
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15.5 x 22.9 cm
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Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The limitations and potential of the documentary sources Chapter 2: General conditions for communication with the supernatural Chapter 3: The belief figure of the witch Chapter 4: The malefactor witch Chapter 5: The alternative world of the witches’ sabbat Chapter 6: The healing witch Chapter 7: The enemies of the witch Afterword. Bibliography

Éva Pócs (red.)

Between the Living and the Dead

A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age

De onderstaande tekst is niet beschikbaar in het Nederlands en wordt in het Engels weergegeven.
Éva Pócs, one of the most highly respected scholars of historical anthropology, has undertaken extensive research on the history of folk beliefs connected with communication and the supernatural sphere. In this book, she examines the relics of European shamanism in early modern sources, and the techniques and belief-systems of mediators found in the records of witchcraft trials from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The book explores the various communication systems known to early modern Hungarians, describes the role of these systems in everyday village life, and shows how they were connected to contemporary European systems, as well as new types of mediators and systems which function right up to the twentieth century. Representing a major contribution to the most up-to-date international research, Eva Pócs draws on significant East European material and literature not previously co-ordinated with that from the West.
Redacteur

Éva Pócs

Éva Pócs is Professor emeritus at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs, Hungary.