Witchcraft, territories and marginal resistances in Rio de Janeiro

Through their everyday references to witchcraft, allegedly emanating from Afro-Brazilian cults, Evangelical pastors denounce heinous crimes and acts of barbarity that provoke horror and terror in their listeners in church and on radio and television. I describe two allegations of witchcraft by Pente...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patricia Birman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2010-01-01
Series:Mana
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-93132010000100005&lng=en&tlng=en