Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage. JEANNE FAVRET-SAADA
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|Translation| Being affected Jeanne FAVRET-SAADA, Ecole pratique des hautes études Translated from the French by Mylene
Between 1969 and 1972, I conducted fieldwork in rural North-West France, protecting it from media curiosity by vaguely referring to it as the ―Western French Bocage [Hedgerow region].‖ I gathered two types of material from this research: a field journal in which I recounted daily events in great detail, and a typed account of some thirty dewitching seances that I had tape-recorded. Two books ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Ethnologist
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0094-0496
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1982.9.3.02a00230