Witchcraft as metaculture in the Bolivian Chaco
Witchcraft as metaculture in the Bolivian Chaco. This paper treats a multi-village assembly that was held to adjudicate an accusation of witchcraft in the Guaraní-speaking indigenous community of Isoso, in the Bolivian Chaco, in 1999. The argument of the article is that the leadership of this commun...
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Main Author: | Kathleen Lowrey |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2007-12-01
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Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/8103 |
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