No. 53 Ene-Jun (2017): Afectividad y construcción de sentido
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Between sorcery and anthropology

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  • Sergio Armando González Varela,
  • Paul Stoller
Sergio Armando González Varela
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
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Paul Stoller
West Chester University
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Published 2017-04-04

Keywords

  • Inexplicable,
  • Magic,
  • Niger,
  • Religion,
  • Supernatural,
  • Songhay,
  • Stoller
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González Varela, S. A., & Stoller, P. (2017). Between sorcery and anthropology. Alteridades, (53 Ene-Jun). Retrieved from https://alteridades.izt.uam.mx/index.php/Alte/article/view/834
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Abstract

It presents the translation of a lecture by Professor Paul Stoller in the topic Ideas matter/Sinke, taught at Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon, October 27, 2014. The text makes a reflection on the author's experience during his 17 years as an apprentice sorcerer among the Songhay in Niger and some inexplicable facts happened to him and one of his colleagues in France. We discuss the limits and possibilities of two logics, the scientific and the world of Songhay sorcery, for the explanation of diseases, particularly the cancer suffered by the author in the year 2001. The latter asks about the possibility of reconciling both logics or keeping them always separate.
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