Witch-Hunts and Persecution Podcast
1) Witch-Hunts and Revitalization
In this lecture, I want to analyze witch-hunts in terms of the concept “revitalization movement”. This concept, theorized by Wallace in 1956, describes three ways societies to deal with cultural chang...Show More
2) Accusations: Directions of Witchcraft Accusations
In this lecture, I want to analyze more deeply relationships between those involved in both witchcraft and accusation. I suggest that harm can result from either the perceived black magic or from accu...Show More
3) Accusations: Who Gets Accused?
In the previous lecture, we looked at the “how” of identification. Now we will look at who is involved. I proposed that identification, in many cases, works through accusation that is gossiped. In thi...Show More
4) Accusations: Gossip
In the previous three lectures, we have, for the purpose of analysis, distinguished the witch of our imagination. When someone is accused of being a witch, some of the qualities of the witch image are...Show More
5) Cannibal Mothers
In previous lectures, we have looked at how we can we analyze the image of the witch. Mair says the witch image represents the opposite of good. Needham says it is a synthesis of primary factors. As w...Show More
6) Primordial Characters
One idea to explain the similarity of witch imagery between cultures is that the witch represents the opposite of good. As I show in this lecture, another idea is that the witch image is created throu...Show More
7) Nightmare Witches
In the previous four lectures, we considered witch-hunting in various contexts. Now we need to analyze what is going on in these cases. The basic idea is that “society creates the image of the witch, ...Show More
8) Indonesian Witch-Hunts
This lecture provides an overview of witch-hunts I have studied in Indonesia. Copyright 2013 Nicholas Herriman / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
9) African Witch-Finding Movements
This lecture focuses particularly on witch-hunting in Africa. As we shall see, such witch-hunting has, on certain occasions taken the form of a cult based around a reincarnated saviour. Copyright 20...Show More
10) Salem and McCarthyism
The lecture focuses on the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism. In doing this, I hope to provide a clearer sense of what we might call “persecution” and “witch-hunt”. Copyright 2013 Nicholas Herriman ...Show More