ANT363H5 Lecture Notes - Curandero
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Possible sample question for midterm: compare this article with the 2nd article. Topic // the politics of witchcraft, sorcery, and magic. Reading #1 - argyrou (1993) under a spell: the strategic use of magic in greek. Answer: there was a quarrel between maroula and her husband and usually gossip escalates when this happens. The gossip was directed towards maroula and her mother by the town as the source of the quarrel between her and her husband. Maroula married a man who was a star student . In essence the husbands mother wanted her son to marry a good girl but her son married maroula who was poor from a large family. Answer: yianoulla was an adopter daughter and the daughter-in-law of a family. She was then married to the son of the family, theodoros. Theodoros eventually got a job and made time to have a child with yianoulla but leaves her for another woman.
