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A modern movement of witch-finders
Africa • 8 • Published In 1935 • Pages: 448-460
By: Richards, Audrey I. (Audrey Isabel).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a descriptive and analytical study of the BAMUCAPI, or witch-finders movement among the Bemba tribes. The author believes that the movement was the result of changes introduced into tribal society through contacts with Europeans. The resultant sense of insecurity heightened the fear of witchcraft which in turn promoted the activities of witch-finders. The author has placed her study in the general framework of the function of witchcraft in primitive societies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sorcery
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bemba
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1930-1934
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zambia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Audrey I. Richards
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bemba (African people)