Powers of Good and Evil
Social Transformation and Popular Belief
... lively and ethnographically interesting. This makes Powers of Good and Evil an excellent teaching resource. · EthnosA key theme in the anthropology of beliefs is the relationship between socio-economic change and changes in the belief system. It has been widely argued that rapid economic change, particularly the introduction of capitalism, leads to an increase in beliefs in, and representations of, evil and the devil. These beliefs, it is argued, constitute forms of resistance to, or rejection of, modernity. This volume builds on these arguments, suggesting that rather than an indigenous resistance to capitalism, such representations sig…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Mitchell, Jon P. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-57181-313-8
- EAN: 9781571813138
- Produktnummer: 15171682
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 266 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 339 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 339
Über den Autor
Jon P. Mitchell is Lecturer in Cultural and Community Studies at the University of Sussex.
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