The Anthropology of Evil
Author:   David Parkin (Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9780631154327


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   29 January 1987
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   David Parkin (Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780631154327


ISBN 10:   0631154329
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   29 January 1987
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface iv 1 Introduction 1 2 Theological thoughts about evil 26 3 Unruly evil 42 4 The root of all evil 57 5 The seed of evil within 77 6 Confucian confusion: the good, the bad and the noodle western 92 7 The popular culture of evil in urban south India 110 8 Buddhism and evil 128 9 Hindu evil as unconquered Lower Self 142 10 Is God evil? 165 11 Good, evil and spiritual power: reflections on Sufi teachings 194 12 Do the Fipa have a word for it? 209 13 Entitling evil: Muslims and non-Muslims in coastal Kenya 224 14 There is no end of evil: the guilty innocents and their fallible god 244 Notes on Contributors 279 Index 281

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David Parkin is Emeritus Professor at Oxford University and Honorary Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has carried out a number of years' fieldwork among different peoples and in different ecologies: the Luo of western Kenya, the Giriama of eastern Kenya, and Swahili-speakers in Zanzibar and Mombasa on Islam, cultural politics, healing?and?cross-cultural semantics. Parkin is former chairman of the International African Institute and of the Association of Social Anthropologists, elected fellow of the British Academy, and since 2009 has been research professor at the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany, focusing on medical and sociolinguistic processes of diversification.

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