 | The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island Subjects: Witchcraft -- Indonesia -- Halmahera; Halmahera (Indonesia) -- Religion; Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Halmahera; Belief and doubt; In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable. Nils Bubandt is Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University. He is the author of Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia and coeditor of several books, including Varieties of Secularism in Asia: Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual . |
