WITCH-HUNT: THE CLASH OF CULTURES
Author: Dr. Clifton W. Wilcox
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2014-04-23
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1493187287
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Author: Dr. Clifton W. Wilcox
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2014-04-23
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1493187287
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Author: Clifton W. Wilcox
Publisher: Xlibris
Published: 2014-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781493187263
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Author: Govind Kelkar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-29
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1108883435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural and socioeconomic struggles over acute structural, economic and social transformations in both the formation of gendered class societies and that of patriarchal capitalism. This book combines political economy with gender and cultural analysis to explain the articulation of cultural beliefs about women as causing harm, and struggles over patriarchy in periods of structural economic transformation. It brings in field data from India and South-East Asia and incorporates a large body of works on witch hunts across geographies and histories. Witch Hunts is a scholarly analysis of the human rights violation of women and its correction through changes in beliefs, knowledge practices and adaptation in structural transformation.
Author: Richard Kieckhefer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0520320581
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Author: Brian M. Fagan
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780761991465
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brian Fagan investigates the impact that European contact had on a number of societies around the world. Each case describes the pre-European culture, the short term impact of contact and the enduring changes caused by the clash of cultures.
Author: David D. Hall
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005-02-04
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0822382202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This superb documentary collection illuminates the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England. The cases examined begin in 1638, extend to the Salem outbreak in 1692, and document for the first time the extensive Stamford-Fairfield, Connecticut, witch-hunt of 1692–1693. Here one encounters witch-hunts through the eyes of those who participated in them: the accusers, the victims, the judges. The original texts tell in vivid detail a multi-dimensional story that conveys not only the process of witch-hunting but also the complexity of culture and society in early America. The documents capture deep-rooted attitudes and expectations and reveal the tensions, anger, envy, and misfortune that underlay communal life and family relationships within New England’s small towns and villages. Primary sources include court depositions as well as excerpts from the diaries and letters of contemporaries. They cover trials for witchcraft, reports of diabolical possessions, suits of defamation, and reports of preternatural events. Each section is preceded by headnotes that describe the case and its background and refer the reader to important secondary interpretations. In his incisive introduction, David D. Hall addresses a wide range of important issues: witchcraft lore, antagonistic social relationships, the vulnerability of women, religious ideologies, popular and learned understandings of witchcraft and the devil, and the role of the legal system. This volume is an extraordinarily significant resource for the study of gender, village politics, religion, and popular culture in seventeenth-century New England.
Author: William E. Burns
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2003-10-30
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0313093822
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From early sorcery trials of the 14th century—associated primarily with French and Papal courts—to the witch executions of the late 18th century, this book's entries cover witch-hunting in individual countries, major witch trials from Chelmsford, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, and significant individuals from famous witches to the devout persecutors. Entries such as the evil eye, familiars, and witch-finders cover specific aspects of the witch-hunting process, while entries on writers and modern interpretations provide insight into the current thinking on early modern witch hunts. From the wicked witch of children's stories to Halloween and present-day Wiccan groups, witches and witchcraft still fascinate observers of Western culture. Witches were believed to affect climatological catastrophes, put spells on their neighbors, and cavort with the devil. In early modern Europe and the Americas, witches and witch-hunting were an integral part of everyday life, touching major events such as the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution, as well as politics, law, medicine, and culture.
Author: Laura Patricia Stokes
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-03-23
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0230309046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comparative analysis of early witch trials in Lucerne, Nuremberg and Basel, within the context of criminal justice and social control. The case of Lucerne presents a fascinating interplay between witch trials and a transformation in the city's criminal procedure on one hand, and between witchcraft fears and social control on the other.
Author: Michael Bronski
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780896082175
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes sections on homosexuality in the movies ( Hollywood), in the theatre, in opera, and gay publishing.