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Strange, Incredible and Impossible Things: The Early Anthropology of Reginald ScotUniversity College London, r.littlewood{at}ucl.ac.uk Reginald Scot has been acclaimed as an early rationalist for his critical consideration of witchcraft in 1584. At the same time, the Discoverie of Witchcraft appears organized much as later classic anthropological monographs. This article considers whether his methods and writing might indeed correspond to what we recognise as the procedures of medical or psychiatric anthropology.
Key Words: agricultural rationalism anthropology Reginald Scot witchcraft witchfinding
Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 46, No. 2,
348-364 (2009) |
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