Western Apache Witchcraft

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Author: Basso, Keith H.  (1940-2013)

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Pub Date: 1969

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Sun-fading to spine and front spine edge.  Appears unused.  Copy 2 (BKS): Fair.  Ex-corporate library.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Library tag taped to bottom corner front cover at spine foot, tape overlaps to front and rear covers.   Second previous owner’s stamp on upper front cover corner.  Sun-fading to spine and spine edges, front and rear.  Some corner and edge wear.

Notes: Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona Number 15.  Basso’s revised dissertation.  Witchcraft as a means of social control, witchcraft as “shared knowledge” about the universe.  “Members of contemporary Western Apache society subscribe to a set of beliefs which imply that certain individuals purposely kill and injure other by means involving neither face-to-face interaction nor the use of any item of material culture.”  (From Chapter 1).   “She’s a black magic woman…” (Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac)

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