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Myers/Lehmann, Magic, Witchcraft and Religion, 6/e

Magic, Witchcraft and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural, 6/e

Arthur Lehmann, California State University -- Chico
Pamela Moro, Willamette University
James Myers, California State University -- Chico

Witchcraft, Sorcery, Divination, and Magic

Internet Exercises


1		Insights into the Witchcraze: read about the "burst of misogyny without parallel in the Western history." Visit: http://barksdale.uta.edu/wolfskill2b.htm What does Debra Lynn Cavett say about women's changing social status in the early modern era? When did gendered analysis of the witchcraze first emerge? Whose 1972 study first drew connections between the female oppression and the sexual repression of the Catholic and Protestant Reformations? How did changes in marriage statistics play into the craze?



2		Sorcery and Deviance in West New Britain: read about Naomi McPherson's other work in the area. Visit: http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/rwpark/WNB/Naomi%20MORO.htm Who is Moro among the Bariai? What does this narrative tell us? How are social norms reinforced in the story of Moro? How is the concept of deviance and social control represented in this essay?



3		Modern Witchcraft: read about feminist witchcraft and female divinity. Visit: http://www.csulb.edu/~wgriffin/publications/embodied.html What kind of approach does Wendy Griffin take in this essay? What relationship does Griffin assert is being redefined in the Goddess Movement and how? What are feminist covens often accused of being? How do "Dianic" radical feminist covens like Redwood Moon approach the concept of a counterbalanced female/male divinity? How do feminist covens approach the issue of transcendence and sacredness?



4		The Poison Oracle among the Azande: read more about this practice. Visit: http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint/Touchstone/Azande-Selby.htm What group has an idea of an oval blackish swelling with seeds near the liver, discovered by autopsy in the body of a witch like the Azande? What is required of a student to become apprenticed to a witch-doctor? The author asserts that overall, Azande witch-doctors must be seen as? How do the Azande view the assassination of King Gbudwe?

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