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This page intentionally left blank witchcraft,sorcery,rumors,andgossip Thisbookcombinestwoclassictopicsinsocialanthropologyinanewsyn- thesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumors and gossip. It does so in two ways. First, it shows how rumor and gossip are invariablyimportantascatalystsforaccusationsofwitchcraftandsorcery. Second,itdemonstratestheroleofrumorandgossipinthegenesisofsocial andpoliticalviolence,asinthecaseofbothpeasantrebellionsandwitch- hunts.ExamplessupportingtheargumentaredrawnfromAfrica,Europe, India,Indonesia,PapuaNewGuinea,andSriLanka.Theyincludediscus- sionsofwitchcrafttrialsinEnglandandScotlandintheseventeenthcentury, witch-hunts and vampire narratives in colonial and contemporary Africa, millenarianmovementsinNewGuinea,theIndianMutinyinnineteenth- centuryUttarPradesh,andrumorsofconstructionsacrificeinIndonesia. PamelaJ.StewartandAndrewStrathernareahusbandandwifeteamand arebothintheDepartmentofAnthropologyattheUniversityofPittsburgh. TheyhavepublishedmanyarticlesandbooksontheirfieldworkinPapua New Guinea and Scotland. Their most recent coauthored books include MinoritiesandMemories:SurvivalsandExtinctionsinScotlandandWestern Europe(2001),RemakingtheWorld:Myth,Mining,andRitualChangeamong theDunaofPapuaNewGuinea(2002),andViolence:TheoryandEthnography (2002). newdeparturesinanthropology New Departures in Anthropology is a book series that focuses on emerging themesinsocialandculturalanthropology.Withoriginalperspectivesand syntheses,authorsintroducenewareasofinquiryinanthropology,explore developments that cross disciplinary boundaries, and weigh in on current debates.Everybookillustratestheoreticalissueswithethnographicmaterial drawn from current research or classic studies, as well as from literature, memoirs,andothergenresofreportage.Theaimoftheseriesistoproduce booksthatareaccessibleenoughtobeusedbycollegestudentsandinstruc- tors,butthatalsowillstimulate,provoke,andinformanthropologistsatall stagesoftheircareers.Writtenclearlyandconcisely,booksintheseriesare designedequallyforadvancedstudentsandabroaderaudienceofreaders, insideandoutsideacademicanthropology,whowanttobebroughtupto dateonthemostexcitingdevelopmentsinthediscipline. Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip Y PAMELA J. STEWART ANDREW STRATHERN UniversityofPittsburgh cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521808682 © Cambridge University Press 2004 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2004 isbn-13 978-0-511-16473-6 eBook (EBL) isbn-10 0-511-16473-4 eBook (EBL) isbn-13 978-0-521-80868-2 hardback isbn-10 0-521-80868-5 hardback isbn-13 978-0-521-00473-2 paperback isbn-10 0-521-00473-x paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Contents Foreword page ix 1 WitchcraftandSorcery:ModesofAnalysis 1 2 RumorandGossip:AnOverview 29 3 Africa 59 4 India 96 5 NewGuinea 113 6 EuropeanandAmericanWitchcraft 140 7 RumorsandViolence 168 8 Conclusions:ConflictandCohesion 194 References 205 Index 217 vii
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