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- ISBN
- 0801479452
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- 9780801479458
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- Book Title
- Empty Seashell : Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island
- Item Length
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- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, History, Social Science, Philosophy
- Topic
- Asia / Southeast Asia, Epistemology, Eastern, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca)
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- Number of Pages
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The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable. Witches (known as gua in the Buli language or as suanggi in regional Malay) appear to be ordinary humans but sometimes, especially at night, they take other forms and attack people in order to kill them and eat their livers. They are seemingly everywhere and nowhere at the same time. The reality of gua, therefore, can never be pinned down. The title of the book comes from the empty nautilus shells that regularly drift ashore around Buli village. Convention has it that if you find a live nautilus, you are a gua . Like the empty shells, witchcraft always seems to recede from experience. Bubandt begins the book by recounting his own confusion and frustration in coming to terms with the contradictory and inaccessible nature of witchcraft realities in Buli. A detailed ethnography of the encompassing inaccessibility of Buli witchcraft leads him to the conclusion that much of the anthropological literature, which views witchcraft as a system of beliefs with genuine explanatory power, is off the mark. Witchcraft for the Buli people doesn?t explain anything. In fact, it does the opposite: it confuses, obfuscates, and frustrates. Drawing upon Jacques Derrida?s concept of aporia?an interminable experience that remains continuously in doubt?Bubandt suggests the need to take seriously people?s experiential and epistemological doubts about witchcraft, and outlines, by extension, a novel way of thinking about witchcraft and its relation to modernity.
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Cornell University Press
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0801479452
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9780801479458
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Book Title
Empty Seashell : Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Asia / Southeast Asia, Epistemology, Eastern, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca)
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, History, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.1in
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"Nils Bubandt has a big idea: 'belief' is a modern product, and we should stop ascribing it to modernity's Others. Instead, we might appreciate doubt--as, for example, Bubandt learned it, mixed with terror, at the heart of Buli witchcraft. For Buli, modernity attracts because it brings belief, which might quell witchcraft's ambiguities. Anthropological certainties are set on their heads. The Empty Seashell is a tour de force." --Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, "In thisintriguing study of witchcraft in a Bulicommunity in Indonesia, [Bunandt] sets out to explore the complex nature of witchcraft in that community as something that exists but is unseen. . . .Overall,this well-written and welcome book adds to the understanding of witchcraft in anthropology, especially in regard to doubt and modernity."-A. E. Leykam,CHOICE(July 2015), "Nils Bubandt has a big idea: 'belief' is a modern product, and we should stop ascribing it to modernity's Others. Instead, we might appreciate doubt-as, for example, Bubandt learned it, mixed with terror, at the heart of Buli witchcraft. For Buli, modernity attracts because it brings belief, which might quell witchcraft's ambiguities. Anthropological certainties are set on their heads. The Empty Seashell is a tour de force." -Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Bubandt likens the witch-menace to nuclear war on terrorism: 'a threat that is both real and yet often absents itself from daily experience.' Witchcraft is, therefore, a paradox: it's everywhere and nowhere, real and impossible,hauntingly vivid yet intangible and invisible.... Bubandt describes a characteristic of the human mind that is universal yet not always obvious to those proud of their post-Enlightenment heritage. Our brains are simultaneously full of knowing and not knowing,believing and doubting, fearing and rationally dismissing fears. We know these to be incompatible opposites, but can't help having them both in play at any one time. And so we comfort ourselves with the illusion of singularity, and of secular triumph. One thing we know for sure is that we have to appear to know things, when really we may know nothing at all., "In thisintriguing study of witchcraft in a Bulicommunity in Indonesia, [Bunandt] sets out to explore the complex nature of witchcraft in that community as something that exists but is unseen. . . .Overall,this well-written and welcome book adds to the understanding of witchcraft in anthropology, especially in regard to doubt and modernity."--A. E. Leykam,CHOICE(July 2015), "Nils Bubandt has a big idea: 'belief' is a modern product, and we should stop ascribing it to modernity's Others. Instead, we might appreciate doubt--as, for example, Bubandt learned it, mixed with terror, at the heart of Buli witchcraft. For Buli, modernity attracts because it brings belief, which might quell witchcraft's ambiguities. Anthropological certainties are set on their heads. The Empty Seashell is a tour de force." --Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Bubandt likens the witch-menace to nuclear war orterrorism: 'a threat that isboth real and yet often absentsitself from daily experience.'Witchcraft is, therefore, aparadox: it's everywhere andnowhere, real and impossible,hauntingly vivid yet intangibleand invisible. . . .Bubandt describes acharacteristic of the human mindthat is universal yet not alwaysobvious to those proud of theirpost-Enlightenment heritage.Our brains are simultaneously full of knowing and not knowing,believing and doubting, fearingand rationally dismissing fears.We know these to be incompatibleopposites, but can't help havingthem both in play at any one time.And so we comfort ourselves withthe illusion of singularity, and ofsecular triumph.One thing we know for sure isthat we have to appear to knowthings, when really we may knownothing at all."-Malcolm Gaskill,Fortean Times(April 2015), "The Empty Seashell is a beautiful and inspiring book. Nils Bubandt's analytical starting point-understanding witchcraft through Derrida's notion of aporia-is thoroughly innovative, not only for witchcraft studies but also for more general issues that have haunted anthropology: understanding 'belief,' surpassing simplistic oppositions between West and non-West, or making sense of human sociality. Bubandt characterizes gua (witchcraft) among the Buli as 'a vortex' which sucks up any tentative certainty that people try to attain. As a piercing form of existential doubt, gua inspires the author to audacious forays into philosophy which, however, always remain related in telling ways to vivid examples from daily life among the Buli. This combination-and Bubandt's engaging style-make the book a true adventure to read and a challenge to studies of witchcraft and human sociality in general."-Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam, author of Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in Comparison, The Empty Seashell never strays far from the scene of witchcraft, from the myths that offer historical and ontological explanations for the close knit between human life and witchcraft in Buli through accounts of individual lives rent apart by accusations or attacks to the destructive ramifications of such occurrences for the community, including how incidents may reverberate across generations as old grudges or suspicions are resurrected to animate new ones.... Bubandt is to be commended for highlighting the precariousness and forces of world-unmaking that are as much a part of social life as the assumed sturdiness that prevails in social scientific works., Nils Bubandt has a big idea: 'belief' is a modern product and we should stop ascribing it to modernity's Others. Instead, we might appreciate doubt--as, for example, Bubandt learned itmixed with terrorat the heart of Buli witchcraft. For Buli, modernity attracts because it brings belief, which might quell witchcraft's ambiguities. Anthropological certainties are set on their heads. The Empty Seashell is a tour de force., In this intriguing study of witchcraft in a Buli community in Indonesia, [Bunandt] sets out to explore the complex nature of witchcraft in that community as something that exists but is unseen.... Overall,this well-written and welcome book adds to the understanding of witchcraft in anthropology, especially in regard to doubt and modernity., "The Empty Seashell is a beautiful and inspiring book. Nils Bubandt's analytical starting point--understanding witchcraft through Derrida's notion of aporia--is thoroughly innovative, not only for witchcraft studies but also for more general issues that have haunted anthropology: understanding 'belief,' surpassing simplistic oppositions between West and non-West, or making sense of human sociality. Bubandt characterizes gua (witchcraft) among the Buli as 'a vortex' which sucks up any tentative certainty that people try to attain. As a piercing form of existential doubt, gua inspires the author to audacious forays into philosophy which, however, always remain related in telling ways to vivid examples from daily life among the Buli. This combination--and Bubandt's engaging style--make the book a true adventure to read and a challenge to studies of witchcraft and human sociality in general."--Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam, author of Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in Comparison, A beautiful and inspiring book. Nils Bubandt's analytical starting point--understanding witchcraft through Derrida's notion of aporia--is thoroughly innovative, not only for witchcraft studies but also for more general issues that have haunted anthropology: understanding 'belief,' surpassing simplistic oppositions between West and non-West, or making sense of human sociality. Bubandt characterizes gua (witchcraft) among the Buli as 'a vortex' which sucks up any tentative certainty that people try to attain. As a piercing form of existential doubt, gua inspires the author to audacious forays into philosophy which, however, always remain related in telling ways to vivid examples from daily life among the Buli. This combination--and Bubandt's engaging style--make the book a true adventure to read and a challenge to studies of witchcraft and human sociality in general., "Bubandt likens the witch-menace to nuclear war orterrorism: 'a threat that isboth real and yet often absentsitself from daily experience.'Witchcraft is, therefore, aparadox: it's everywhere andnowhere, real and impossible,hauntingly vivid yet intangibleand invisible. . . .Bubandt describes acharacteristic of the human mindthat is universal yet not alwaysobvious to those proud of theirpost-Enlightenment heritage.Our brains are simultaneously full of knowing and not knowing,believing and doubting, fearingand rationally dismissing fears.We know these to be incompatibleopposites, but can't help havingthem both in play at any one time.And so we comfort ourselves withthe illusion of singularity, and ofsecular triumph.One thing we know for sure isthat we have to appear to knowthings, when really we may knownothing at all."--Malcolm Gaskill,Fortean Times(April 2015)
Table of Content
Introduction: The Shell of the Nautilus 1. Witchcraft, Doubt, and Aporia 2. The Origins of Witchcraft and the Doubts of Tradition 3. Hope, Conversion, and Millennial Politics 4. Christianity and Deception 5. The Viscerality of Witchcraft and the Corporeality of the World 6. New Order Modern 7. Subjectivity, Exchange, Opacity 8. Technology, Money, and the Futures of Witchcraft Conclusion: Witchcraft beyond Belief Notes Bibliography
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2015
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2014-025811
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133.430959856
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