evans prtichard witchcraft
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Azande usewitchcraft toexplain unex-plainable
witchcraft isin every as-pect of life
if anything bad happensto a person, it is witch-craft
misfortune is caused by witchcraft unless sorcery/evil agent at work, impompetence,break a taboo, or act immorally
Zande wouldbe surprised tonot come ac-
ross witchcraft
Azande menaren't scared ofw.c. but ratherare annoyed byit
S.O wanted tohurt the victim=> victim be-comes angry
anyone can bea witch; notremarkable
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why shouldthis one eventout of the manytimes indi hasdone it, fail/cause injury?
wc not onlycause of s/tbut reasonman is injured
Zande philoso-phy connectsthe vicitim to
the cause (el-liminates coin-cidence)
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Zande ppl under-stand the scienti-fic causes ofthings but usemagic to explainwhy it happens
haha
magic explainswhy things happenbut not how
Zande don'tignore the 2nd-ary causes ofdeath
wc is sociallyrelevent since itallows interven-tion
nat death andwc complimenteach other
wc gives deathmoral value
physical causeand wc com-bined kill person
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not every failure/misfortune explainedby magic since co-mmon sense canexplain
when a person isimmoral or breaksa taboo/law doeswc not apply
aspecial conditionsin which wc is notculpable for death(and to say sowould be treasonand punishable ofdeath)
wc used to explainmisfortune, sick-ness, & death butis irrelevent in lawand morals
- beaking a taboo => misfortune (but if die from misfortune, wc is cause)- 3 spear death (physical cause, breach of taboo, wc)
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failure of med towork may be b/cof broken taboo
potter may be inexpor had sex nightbefore (no wc in-volved)
not all deaths areattributed to wc orbreach of taboo(Supreme Being)
sorceror vs. witch
bad blood/old agenot wc or taboo
adultery + wc could= death (of individualor his/her partner)
incomcpetence, lazi-ness, and ignorancecan be causes forfailure/misfortune
individual may point to wc but others will disagree if it is the individual's own fault
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serious misfortune isnormally attributed todeath
serious injuries ordeath explained bywc (no matter howat fault vicitm was)
if carry out an acti-vity traditionally andstill fail, wc is to blame
no concept in supernatand nat world
Zande do distinguish between natural and supernatural
Azande do see adiff b/w nat andsupernat, theycannot describe itsince there is noformal concept ofnat law
Azande know thatwc exists but don'know how it works
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