@article{ref1,
title="Introduction: Cross-cultural articulations of war magic and warrior religion",
journal="Social Analysis",
year="2014",
author="Farrer, D.S.",
volume="58",
number="1",
pages="1-24",
abstract="Previous anthropology emphasized symbolic incantations at the expense of the embodied practice of magic. Foregrounding embodiment and performance in war magic and warrior religion collapses the mind-body dualism of magic versus rationality, instead highlighting social action, innovation, and the revitalization of tradition, as tempered historically by colonial and post-colonial trajectories in societies undergoing rapid social transformation. Religion and magic are re-evaluated from the perspective of the practitioner's and the victim's embodiment in their experiential life-worlds via articles discussing Chinese exorcists, Javanese spirit siblings, Sumatran black magic, Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, Chamorro spiritual re-enchantment, tantric Buddhist war magic, and Yanomami dark shamans. Central themes include violence and healing, accomplished through ritual and performance, to unleash and/or control the power of gods, demons, ghosts and the dead. © Berghahn Journals.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0155-977X",
doi="10.3167/sa.2014.580101",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sa.2014.580101"
}