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B.J. ter Haar Telling stories
witchcraft and scapegoating in Chinese history
This book analyzes the role of oral stories leading to witch-hunts in imperial China. It's interest is in those stories that led to the stigmatisation of certain types of beings, and often to consequent outbreaks of collective fear over larger regions. In the stories demonic creatures, sometimes human beings, were identified as scapegoats and dealt with by means of violence. Scapegoats could be Westerners, and other foreigners, wicked women, and evil emperors, recruiting young girls for the imperial...
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Engels | 378 pagina's | Brill, Leiden [etc.] | 2006
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