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"Passions" in the Discourses on Witchcraft in Kerala
Tarabout G.
Journal of Indian Philosophy 28 (2000) 651-664 - http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00524111
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"Passions" in the Discourses on Witchcraft in Kerala
Gilles Tarabout () 1, 2
1:  Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS)
http://ceias.ehess.fr/
CNRS : UMR8564 – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS]
190-198 avenue de France - 75 244 Paris cedex 13
France
2:  Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC)
http://www.mae.u-paris10.fr/lesc/
CNRS : UMR7186 – Université Paris X - Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
21 Allée de l'université F-92023 92023 NANTERRE CEDEX
France
This paper is about misfortune as elaborated in the narratives of (counter-) witchcraft practitioners and consultants. Their statements can be read from different perspectives, and I choose here to look at them specifically in terms of "passions" and their control.
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Journal of Indian Philosophy
Publisher Springer Verlag (Germany)
ISSN 0022-1791 (eISSN : 1573-0395)
international
2000
28
651-664

India – Kerala – witchcraft – misfortune – emotions – antrhopology

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