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Ronald Hutton The Witch (Paperback). In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake. His fresh anthropological and ethnographical approach focuses on cultural inheritance and change while considering shamanism, folk religion, the range of witch trials, and how the fear of witchcraft might be eradicated. Further DetailsTitle: The Witch Condition: New Description: Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe’s history "Traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch trials to beliefs and attitudes about witches around the world throughout history.”— Los Angeles Times The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake. This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft. Hutton, a renowned expert on ancient, medieval, and modern paganism and witchcraft beliefs, combines Anglo-American and continental scholarly approaches to examine attitudes on witchcraft and the treatment of suspected witches across the world, including in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Australia, and North and South America, and from ancient pagan times to current interpretations. His fresh anthropological and ethnographical approach focuses on cultural inheritance and change while considering shamanism, folk religion, the range of witch trials, and how the fear of witchcraft might be eradicated. Author: Ronald Hutton EAN: 9780300238679 Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780300238679 Item Height: 197mm Item Length: 127mm Language: English ISBN-10: 0300238673 Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: Society & Culture Publisher: Yale University Press Release Date: 09/11/2018 Item Weight: 363g Subtitle: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present Topic: Language & Reference, Social Sciences, History Release Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
