Magic's Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy by Graham M. Jones Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 208 pp
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 121, Heft 4, S. 952-953
ISSN: 1548-1433
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 121, Heft 4, S. 952-953
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 117, Heft 3, S. 599-631
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In: Transcultural psychiatry, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 592-599
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Anthropology has long recognized the inadvertent polluting power of the male and female genitals. In his important discussion of Yoruba beliefs in female power and witchcraft, Raymond Prince (1961) recognized that African women know very well that they can direct the power that can emanate from their own genitals, and in some extreme situations their threats to loosen this power are strongly persuasive. Only a few others have recognized the aggressive use of female genital power. Further research in this area has important implications for understanding African ideas of sexuality.
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 99, Heft 2, S. 422-423
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The Dark Side of Humanity: The Work of Robert Herte and Its Legacy, Robert Parkin. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996. 226 pp.
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 96, Heft 1, S. 198-199
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 91, Heft 3, S. 805-806
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 83, Heft 1, S. 174-175
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