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Author: Nils Bubandt Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801471966 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 316
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The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable.Witches (known as gua in the Buli language or as suanggi in regional Malay) appear to be ordinary humans but sometimes, especially at night, they take other forms and attack people in order to kill them and eat their livers. They are seemingly everywhere and nowhere at the same time. The reality of gua, therefore, can never be pinned down. The title of the book comes from the empty nautilus shells that regularly drift ashore around Buli village. Convention has it that if you find a live nautilus, you are a gua. Like the empty shells, witchcraft always seems to recede from experience.Bubandt begins the book by recounting his own confusion and frustration in coming to terms with the contradictory and inaccessible nature of witchcraft realities in Buli. A detailed ethnography of the encompassing inaccessibility of Buli witchcraft leads him to the conclusion that much of the anthropological literature, which views witchcraft as a system of beliefs with genuine explanatory power, is off the mark. Witchcraft for the Buli people doesn't explain anything. In fact, it does the opposite: it confuses, obfuscates, and frustrates. Drawing upon Jacques Derrida's concept of aporia—an interminable experience that remains continuously in doubt—Bubandt suggests the need to take seriously people's experiential and epistemological doubts about witchcraft, and outlines, by extension, a novel way of thinking about witchcraft and its relation to modernity.
Author: Nils Bubandt Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801471966 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 316
Book Description
The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable.Witches (known as gua in the Buli language or as suanggi in regional Malay) appear to be ordinary humans but sometimes, especially at night, they take other forms and attack people in order to kill them and eat their livers. They are seemingly everywhere and nowhere at the same time. The reality of gua, therefore, can never be pinned down. The title of the book comes from the empty nautilus shells that regularly drift ashore around Buli village. Convention has it that if you find a live nautilus, you are a gua. Like the empty shells, witchcraft always seems to recede from experience.Bubandt begins the book by recounting his own confusion and frustration in coming to terms with the contradictory and inaccessible nature of witchcraft realities in Buli. A detailed ethnography of the encompassing inaccessibility of Buli witchcraft leads him to the conclusion that much of the anthropological literature, which views witchcraft as a system of beliefs with genuine explanatory power, is off the mark. Witchcraft for the Buli people doesn't explain anything. In fact, it does the opposite: it confuses, obfuscates, and frustrates. Drawing upon Jacques Derrida's concept of aporia—an interminable experience that remains continuously in doubt—Bubandt suggests the need to take seriously people's experiential and epistemological doubts about witchcraft, and outlines, by extension, a novel way of thinking about witchcraft and its relation to modernity.
Author: Tara Mills Publisher: Sherman Hills Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 157
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When defending her clients puts an attorney in the crosshairs, her safety falls to a cop with personal demons of his own. Eden Hennessey, champion of social justice and attorney with the non-profit Civil Rights Watch, just won her biggest case yet—and made a dangerous enemy. Now the anonymous hate mail has turned to threats. Someone is following her, taking photos of her, and proving nothing she’s done to guard her privacy and protect herself is enough. Recently returned to duty after an emotional crash over the death of his former partner, Detective Glen Gold knows he can't afford a single infraction. But when he’s assigned the Hennessey case, the challenge of identifying who’s behind the threats grows increasingly complicated by their deepening attraction. As the line between personal and professional begins to blur, Gold’s badge isn’t all he could lose if he doesn’t shut down Eden’s stalker in time. Enjoy this sensual and exciting romantic suspense today. Keywords: Tortured hero, Police, detective, dark hero, protection, danger, threat, hate crimes, revenge, LGBTQ, strong heroine
Author: Joel Osteen Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1546016007 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 81
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Release the negative thoughts and feelings that are weighing you down and make room for the good things you should have in your life with #1 New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen. You were created to be filled with joy, peace, confidence, and creativity. But it's easy to go through life holding on to things that weigh you down-guilt, resentment, doubt, worry. When you give space to these negative emotions, they take up space that you need for the good things that move you toward your destiny. How much room are you giving to shame, to regret, to being against yourself? Whatever it is, it's too much. Life is too short for you to live bitter and discouraged, letting your circumstances hold you back. Every morning you have to empty out anything negative from the day before and put on a fresh new attitude. Power up and get your mind going in the right direction, and you'll step into all the new things God has in store for you.
Author: Napoleon Hill Publisher: Sharon Lechter ISBN: Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 30
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Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, an insightful guide reveals the seven principles of good that will allow anyone to triumph over the obstacles that must be faced in reaching personal goals.
Author: Julie Boucher Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465371451 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 193
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The village of Eudinia is slowly crumbling under the pressures of hunger and loss, created by their new King. To rebel is to die, and the people succumb to his demands to protect themselves and their loved ones. But when the King takes away his family and home, Nyle Oakwing is determined to save them and his village and to bring everything back to its rightful balance. If asking Damien, the village outcast, for help is the only way to do it, so be it. With unwanted affection and uncertainty clouding his vision, will he be able to keep his eyes on his goal? Or will his doubts consume him?
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