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An Anatomy of Witchcraft: Between Cognitive Sciences and History
An Anatomy of Witchcraft: Between Cognitive Sciences and History
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This book aims to reappraise witchcraft by applying cognitive sciences to investigate human emotions, historical repressions, neuroscience, and the phenomenon of treasure hunting. It is interdisciplinary and will be of interest to scholars from various fields.
Format: Hardback
Length: 262 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Much has been written on witchcraft by historians, theologians, philosophers, and anthropologists, but nothing by scientists. This book aims to reappraise witchcraft by applying to it the advances in cognitive sciences. The book is divided into four parts. Part I (Deep History) deals with human emotions and the drive to represent witches as evil female agents. Part II (Historical Times) focuses on those rare state and church repressions of malefice, which, surprisingly, did not feature in Islamic lands. Modern urbanization dealt a blow to the rural civilizations where accusations of witchcraft were rife. Part III (In the Laboratory) applies neuroscience to specific case studies to investigate the personification of misfortune, the millenary stereotype witch = woman, the reality of evil, and the phenomenon of treasure hunting. Part IV (Millenials) wonders whether intentional malefic hatred in a closed chapter in the history of humanity.
An Anatomy of Witchcraft is ideal reading for students and scholars. Given its interdisciplinary nature, the book will be of interest to scholars from many fields including evolutionary psychology, anthropology, womens history, and cognitive sciences.
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032539331
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