Provincializing European Witchcraft: Thoughts on Peter Geschiere’s Latest Synthesis

Latest Thoughts on Methods for Assessing Teat Condition

The Teat Club International (TCI) is an excellent example of an interdisciplinary and international cooperative effort and illustrates the synergies that such collaboration can produce. The group of experts cited in the references to this paper (lead by Graeme Mein, then Eric Hillerton and now Ian Ohnstad) began a dialogue intended to develop a commonly accepted methodology for assessing teat c...

Thoughts on the Synthesis of Life

One of the most challenging problems in Artiicial Life remains the creation of open ended evolution. A number of current eeorts are directed at this problem. One characteristic that these eeorts generally share is that they parallel the origin of life event, in that they attempt to create pre-biotic conditions from which Artiicial Life may emerge spontaneously and evolve in an open ended fashio...

Introduction: "translating" Audiences, Provincializing Europe . Book Section

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Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft

Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft

'Much nonsense has been written on this subject', wrote Keith Thomas in a famous and influential footnote to his own pioneering chapter on English witchcraft in Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971). In similar vein, Robin Briggs remarks near the st art of this magnificent new survey that 'common assumptions about the subject tend to have one very marked feature in common, which is that they...