Easa

By: Thomas Hauschild

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Hardcover | 1 March 2011

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Based on vivid and colorful case studies about Mafiosi, priests, mothers, and migrants, the author offers new perspectives on the anthropology of religion and magic through categories of landscape, the body, human practice, and material experience. The focus on women as religious practitioners is linked to the idea of religion as a primary mode of production that creates and helps to maintain human reserves in a fast changing, male-dominated world. It is through this mechanism that the Catholic Church, the oldest existing bureaucratic agency of globalization, has maintained its power. Exploring aspects of spirit experiences, trance, the cult of saints, official ecclesiastical cults, and especially witchcraft, this book reveals the explosive, sometimes violent creativity of religion, its relation to magic, and its multi-facetted social value for humans as reflected in the religiously based, pragmatic realism of everyday life in the Mediterranean.

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"Hauschild has produced a visceral ethnographic account from the perspective of healers that also subtly addresses questions about the production of ethnographic data." â¢ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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List of Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Linda, the Woman Who Helps
Women, Men, Books
Vito and the Spirits
The Cursed
Bitter Truths
The Ancestral Line of the Magi
Can Priests Fly?
The Good Shepherd
Carnival
The Cement of Power
The Nightmare
Bibliography
Index
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