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Magic, sorcery, and football among the urban Zulu: a case of reinterpretation under acculturation
Black Africa; its peoples and their cultures today • New York • Published In 1970 • Pages: 248-252
By: Scotch, Norman A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, the work of a professional anthropologist, discusses the ways beliefs in magic and sorcery have been re-worked in urban Durban in the context of competitive team sports. The author indicates that magic in this case continues to operate as a mediating factor in situations of stress, and alleviates interpersonal and intergroup antagonisms by displacing the apparent causes of success and failure.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Athletic sports
- Magic
- Sorcery
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zulu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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
- essay
- 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
- Jan Simpson ; John Beierle ; 1979
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- 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)
- Durban region, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Norman A. Scotch
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73097763
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zulu (African people)