Being affected, Translated by Mylene Hengen and Matthew Carey

Jeanne Favret-Saada (1)

1 EPHE - École Pratique des Hautes Études

Between 1969 and 1972, I conducted fieldwork in rural North-West France, protecting it from media curiosity by vaguely referring to it as the ―Western French Bocage [Hedgerow region].‖ I gathered two types of material from this research: a field journal in which I recounted daily events in great detail, and a typed account of some thirty dewitching seances that I had tape-recorded. Two books were drafted from the material in my field journal: Les Mots, la mort, les sorts. La sorcellerie dans le Bocage (1977), and Corps pour corps. Enquête sur la sorcellerie dans le Bocage (1988).

Mots clés: witchcraft

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Jeanne Favret-Saada. Being affected, Translated by Mylene Hengen and Matthew Carey. Journal of Ethnographic Theory - HAU, 2012, 2 (1), pp.435-445. ⟨halshs-01188433⟩