The sorcery of gender: sex, death and difference in East Java, Indonesia

Drawing on ethnographic material from East Java, Indonesia, this article examines the intersections of sorcery and gender and suggests that sorcery is a form of exchange, which, as well as inducing misfortune, pain and death, evinces gender. Key here are the invocation and inversion of marriage tran...

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Veröffentlicht in:South East Asia Research. - In Print Publishing Ltd, 1993. - 18(2010), 3, Seite 471-502
1. Verfasser: Retsikas, Konstantinos (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2010
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:South East Asia Research
Schlagworte:Behavioral sciences Social sciences Biological sciences Arts Religion