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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Naming The Witch Magic Ideology And Stereotype In The Ancient World Gender Theory And Religion

Posted by Mystery at 4:03 AM Labels: anthropology of religion, magic, magick
Naming The Witch Magic Ideology And Stereotype In The Ancient World Gender Theory And Religion
Kimberly B. Stratton investigates the cultural and ideological motivations astern little thoughts of the magician, the sorceress, and the witch in the ancient world. Accusations of magic may well tickle pink the death injunction or, at the very lowest, marginalize the individual or group they targeted. But Stratton moves over and done the memorable view of these accusations as mere misrepresentation. In her view, representations and accusations of sorcery mirror the mania crawl of ancient societies to define arbitrator, validity, and Otherness.

Stratton argues that the belief "magic" before time emerged as a communication in ancient Athens everywhere it operated part and piece of the crawl to define Greek population in opposition to the nasty "barbarian" later than the Persian Wars. The inspiration of magic consequently spread more or less the Hellenized world and Rome, brilliant and adapting to embassy armed, values, and convivial concerns in each society. Stratton considers the sketch of witches and magicians in the literature of four alike periods and cultures: perfect Athens, little public Rome, pre-Constantine Christianity, and rabbinic Judaism. She compares patterns in their representations of magic and analyzes the connection surrounded by these stereotypes and the convivial factors that formed them.

Stratton's family member silhouette illuminates the fine distinction to which magic was (and set is) a cultural emit that depended upon and reflected idiosyncratic convivial contexts. Unlike maximum former studies of magic, which treated the perfect world on its own merits from antiquated Judaism, "Baptism ceremony the Witch" highlights the fine distinction to which these ancient cultures broadcast information about power and formal arbitrator, even in the role of constructing and deploying dwell in information in different ways. The book as well as interrogates the endemic appear of women with magic, denaturalizing the gendered model in the formula. Sketch on Michel Foucault's survey of communication as well as the work of other modern theorists, such as Homi K. Bhabha and Bruce Lincoln, Stratton's bewitching study presents a disdainful nuanced, ideologically sensitive silhouette to understanding the witch in Western history.
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