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" In this web of belief every strand depends upon every other strand, and a Zande cannot get out of its meshes because this is the only world he knows. The web is not an external structure in which he is enclosed. It is the texture of his thought and he... "
Occult Scientific Mentalities - Page 35
by Brian Vickers - 1986 - 424 pages
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Legitimation of Belief

Ernest Gellner - 1975 - 228 pages
...classic work on the Azande: In this web of belief every strand depends upon every other strand, and a Zande cannot get out of its meshes because it is...his thought and he cannot think that his thought is wrong.97 No doubt, situations of this kind - conceptual loyalty without any option - do occur. But...
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Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan

Winston Davis - 1980 - 356 pages
...every strand depends upon every other strand, and a Zande cannot get out of its meshes because this is the only world he knows. The web is not an external...thought and he cannot think that his thought is wrong." * The Zande system of witchcraft, oracles, and magic was sufficiently robust to absorb doubt itself....
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Of Gods and Men: New Religious Movements in the West : Proceedings of the ...

British Sociological Association. Sociology of Religion Study Group. Conference - 1983 - 378 pages
...Zande belief in poison oracles: "In this web of belief, every strand depends on every other strand, and a Zande cannot get out of its meshes because it is the only world he knows" (Burke, 1980:76). Perhaps, then, the theoretically interesting question may require that we try to...
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The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History

Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins, Steven Lukes - 1985 - 324 pages
...belief every strand depends on every other strand and a Zande cannot get outside its meshes because this is the only world he knows. The web is not an external...his thought and he cannot think that his thought is wrong.4 Does a Durkheimian sociology of knowledge imply a relativist epistemology? I think that for...
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God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School

Alan Peshkin - 1988 - 360 pages
...their beliefs hang together.... In this web of belief every strand depends upon every other strand, and a Zande cannot get out of its meshes because it is...is the texture of his thought and he cannot think his thought is wrong. [1967:155] If Bethany's educators know enough about the world to entertain the...
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Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie

Wade Davis - 1988 - 372 pages
...(per- The Historical son) cannot get out of its meshes because this is the only world he and Cultural knows. The web is not an external structure in which he is Setting enclosed. It is the texture of his thought, and he cannot think that his thought is wrong"...
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Unapologetic Theology: A Christian Voice in a Pluralistic Conversation

William Carl Placher - 1989 - 188 pages
...belief every strand depends on every other strand, and a Zande cannot get out of its meshes because this is the only world he knows. The web is not an external structure in which he is enmeshed. It is the texture of his thought and he cannot think his thought is wrong. 6 As a good anthropologist,...
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Mirrors of Madness: Patrolling the Psychic Border

Bruce Luske - 146 pages
...(EvansPritchard 1937:194): "In this web of belief every strand depends on every other strand, and Azande cannot get out of its meshes because it is the only...is the texture of his thought and he cannot think his thought is wrong." Chapter 4 BORDER LINES We have seen that staff's psychological vulnerability...
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Littérature de colportage et imaginaire collectif en Angleterre à l'époque ...

Gilles Duval - 1991 - 762 pages
...every strand depends upon every other strand, and a Zande cannot get out of its meshes because this is the only world he knows. The web is not an external...thought and he cannot think that his thought is wrong. Nevertheless, his beliefs are not absolutely set but are variable and fluctuating to allow for different...
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Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and ...

Robin Horton - 1997 - 488 pages
...witchcraft and oracles ... In this web of belief every strand depends upon every other strand, and a Zande cannot get out of its meshes because it is...thought and he cannot think that his thought is wrong [italics mine].23 And again: And yet Azande do not see that their oracles tell them nothing! Their...
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