Witchcraft in Four African Societies: An Essay in Comparison

From the mountains to the plains: the integration of the Lafofa Nuba into Sudanese society

“…T h e Lafofa age-grade system is thus a simple system, not like the conlplex systems we see elsewhere in the Nuba Mountains (e.g. Nadel, 1952;Rottenburg, 1988). Still it functioned as an important marker of change in status for the people involved T h e transition fiom boyhood to kamenai n7as surrounded by elaborate ceremonies.…”

Jesus Lives in Me: Pentecostal Conversions, Witchcraft Confessions, and Gendered Power in the Trobriand Islands

“…This is perhaps the case with acts of sorcery carried out by children or adolescents, or witchcraft by women of commoner status (compare also the role of children with the gift of discernment, as described by Bratrud in this volume). This notion of sorcery being most fearsome when carried out by marginal or dispossessed individuals as a means of challenging the existing social order is well established in the African literature (see, for example, Badstuebner 2003; Comaroff and Comaroff 1993;Moore and Sanders 2001;Nadel 1952), but perhaps less explicitly so in Melanesia.…”

El alcance de las teorías sobre la parentalidad. La comparación transcultural como extensión de los modelos etnográficos

“…Es lo que hizo Nadel (1952) con las diferencias en las creencias de brujería, o Mummert (2010) recientemente, comparando, en procesos migratorios, los estereotipos respecto al abandono de los hijos, según sean hombres o mujeres los que inician las cadenas migratorias.…”