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War Magic: Religion, Sorcery, and Performance
D. S. Farrer (Ed.)
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Description for War Magic: Religion, Sorcery, and Performance
Paperback. This collection documents war magic and warrior religion as performed in diverse cultures and historical time periods. By foregrounding embodiment, practice, and performance, the anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion that the authors apply go beyond what magic 'represents' to consider what magic does. Editor(s): Farrer, D. S. Num Pages: 182 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRLM; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
This compelling volume explores how war magic and warrior religion unleash the power of the gods, demons, ghosts, and the dead. Documenting war magic and warrior religion as they are performed in diverse cultures and across historical time periods, this volume foregrounds embodiment, practice, and performance in anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion. The authors go beyond what magic `represents' to consider what magic does. From Chinese exorcists, Javanese spirit siblings, and black magic in Sumatra to Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, Chamorro spiritual re-enchantment, tantric Buddhist war magic, and Yanomami dark shamans, religion and magic are re-evaluated not ... Read more
This compelling volume explores how war magic and warrior religion unleash the power of the gods, demons, ghosts, and the dead. Documenting war magic and warrior religion as they are performed in diverse cultures and across historical time periods, this volume foregrounds embodiment, practice, and performance in anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion. The authors go beyond what magic `represents' to consider what magic does. From Chinese exorcists, Javanese spirit siblings, and black magic in Sumatra to Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, Chamorro spiritual re-enchantment, tantric Buddhist war magic, and Yanomami dark shamans, religion and magic are re-evaluated not ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
252g
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785333293
SKU
V9781785333293
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About D. S. Farrer (Ed.)
Douglas Farrer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Guam. He is the author of Shadows of the Prophet: Martial Arts and Sufi Mysticism (Springer), and co-author of Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge: Asian Traditions in a Transnational World (SUNY).
Reviews for War Magic: Religion, Sorcery, and Performance
War Magic is a significant new look at some old questions, and while the collected essays are relatively few and brief, they are important and interesting... we can only hope that the volume will spur more attention to the subject of malicious spiritual power, which in turn should shed light on prominent problems like holy war and fundamentalist terrorism. ... Read more