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... de stora häxprocesserna? (What caused the great trials for witchcraft?). Arv: Tidskrift för Nordisk Folkminnesforskning . 10 . 1 : 1 -37. Guazzo , F.-M. 1608 . Compendium maleficarum . Milan. Hajnal , J. 1965 . European Marriage Patterns in Perspective. In Population...

... in most of the British colonies. While Franz Boas, for example, used the results of comparative ethno- graphic research to challenge racist views of human behavior, other anthropologists in official positions were so preoccupied with African witchcraft and initiation rites that they turned a blind eye...

.... American Anthropologist 38.2 (April–June): 157 –96. ———. 1944 . Navaho Witchcraft. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 22.2 : 1 –149. ———. 1945 . A Navaho Personal Document with a Brief Paretan Analysis. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 1.2 (Summer...

... Douglas and Bloor 257 our attachment to traditional Cartesian logic is revealed as merely that: an attachment. Bloor uses Evans-Pritchard’s Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande (1937) to demonstrate the possibility of alter­ native systems of logic: thought worlds which...

... own century it is quoted again and again, sometimes seriously, sometimes with amuse- ment. (Nicolson 1940, 278) In Somnium, Kepler attributed his ability to dream his flight to the moon to the witchcraft of an old women. Gossipers claimed that old woman was Kelper’s mother, who, despite...

... . Cheats at Work: An Anthropology of Workplace Crime . London: Unwin Paperbacks. Morgan , E. V. , and W. A. Thomas 1962 . The Stock Exchange: Its History and Functions . London: Elek Books. Owen , D. E. 1982 . Spectral Evidence: The Witchcraft Cosmology of Salem Village in 1692...

... their origin in “national prejudice and animosity” (I, 497 [441 The legislation against oorn traders is so perverse as to lead Smith to eompare it to laws against witchcraft (11, 41 [ 5001 ) ; indeed, “the laws concerning corn may every where be compared to the laws concerning relighn” (11, 48...

...- grossing. Indeed, Bryan Edwards almost quoted Smith word for word. In the Weafth of Nations Smith declared: “The popular fear of engrossing and forestalling may be compared to the popular terrors and suspicions of witchcraft. The unfortunate wretches accused of this latter crime were...

... passed laws regulating the corn trade. Such legislation was no more justified than laws regarding religion (ibid., IV.v.b.40, p. 539). He claimed that people’s fear of forestalling was no more warranted than anxiety about witchcraft (ibid., IV.v.b.26, p. 534). Even worse, lower class cultural...

... o f the Body (Cannon), 30 sciences, 20; Porter on, 56; Roos on, W ise, M. Norton, 70, 79, 281n, 143; Théorie mathématique des rich­ 318, 335 esses sociales, 183; Tinbergen and, Witchcraft, Oracles, and M agic among 138, 139; on value, 207n; Weintraub...

..., which were human constructions, Natur endured and 14. In this last “story,” examining a series of witchcraft reports centeredon the Saxon min- ing town of Annaberg, Bucher (1723, 55–80) took an “enlightened” stance, laboriously explain- ing each piece of evidence in question as having a natural...

... economy, which has yet to be distinguished from the bastard science, as medicine from witchcraft, and astronomy from astrology, is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life: and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction” (85...

... gener- ates the folktale, with each sphere excluding manifestations of the oppos- ing instinct.21 But cultural spheres generate social groups (the practitioners and the followers or audience of witchcraft, of storytelling, etc and such groups come to exist independent of the original instinct...

...; Tobin 1974,ll-12,19; Fitch [1968] 1972,451). He has also reflected on his adversaries in the battle to influence the White House in the 1960s: “Economic forecasting is largely witchcraft. . . . The economic advis- ers do not function as economists. They function as a priesthood. They use...