ENEMY FROM WITHIN AND HIS REPUTATION: INVESTIGATION OF WITCHCRAFT AND GOSSIP IN ANTHROPOLOGY (Nepriatel zvnutra a jeho povest: skumanie bosoractva a klebiet v antropologii)

• Authors: Buzekova Tatiana
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with investigation of witchcraft and gossip in anthropology. These two phenomena are interconnected and they have been examined by scholars since the early period of anthropological research. Anthropologists didn't deny that both witchcraft and gossip have psychological dimension, but it was not easy to deal with them theoretically. After presentation of the key points of anthropological investigation of witchcraft and gossip the authoress introduces the current perspective of evolutionary psychology. This psychology integrates principles and results which are drawn from evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology, and neuroscience.

Keywords

EN

ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY; GOSSIP; WITCHCRAFT

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 130-146
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Buzekova Tatiana

• Tatiana Buzekova, Etnologicky ustav SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic; www.uet.sav.sk/slovenskynarodopis.htm

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA064813