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Death of a witch: A village in North India, 1950-1981
144 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1983
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December 2, 2015
While I was very interested in all the details of the social structure and practices of the village the author studied, I was often distracted by the author's choice to include personal opinions of the villagers he studied. I guess that's just something that forms when you do ethnographic work for long periods of time, but did he really need to call one man dim-witted and another man's daughter ugly? Other than these sort of jarring comments, I very much enjoyed reading the book.
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