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June 28, 2017

Nils Bubandt, The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island (Review)

Oceania 87(2):231-232

…Bubandt’s book is … a highly original contribution to debates around the ontological turn. The witch does not only raise a problem of knowledge and belief, but of what we mean by being, since it cannot itself be. It remains invisible and is capable of appearing in many different forms. The witch cannot be known, […]

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