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H som i hök
av Helen MacDonald
Unik och fascinerande självbiografi om att sörja en bortgången far och att försonas med döden genom att tämja en av naturens mest okuvliga skapelser, duvhöken. Det är en djupt känslomässig berättelse om djur och människa, ensamhet och gemenskap, civilisation och vildmark, liv och död.

Som barn drömde Helen Macdonald om att bli falkenerare. Det var ett intresse hon delade med sin far och tillsammans lärde de sig allt om den medeltida konsten att tämja rovfåglar för jakt.

Flera år senare, när hennes far dör och hon nästan förgås av sorg, blir Helen besatt av idén att tämja den vildaste och mest skrämmande av alla rovfåglar: duvhöken.

För åttahundra pund köper hon höken Mabel i en blåsig hamnby i Skottland. Det är en mäktig och skräckinjagande varelse med stora och outgrundliga ögon. Väl hemma i Cambridge fyller hon frysen med hökmat, stänger av mobiltelefonen och påbörjar en resa som hon inte har någon aning om vart den ska sluta.

Och medan fågeln långsamt lär sig att lyda, lär sig Helen att bli fri från sin sorg.

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H is for Hawk
av Helen MacDonald
Discover the number one bestselling phenomenon that is a powerful and profound mediation on grief expressed through the trials of training a goshawk.**WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR**** WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for 800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.**SELECTED BY CARIAD LLOYD ON BBC TWO'S BETWEEN THE COVERS**'This beautiful book is at once heartfelt and clever in the way it mixes elegy with celebration' Andrew Motion'It just sings. I couldn't stop reading' Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time'Dazzling... Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence' Financial Times

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Aftonflykter
av Helen MacDonald
"Djur finns inte för att lära oss saker, men det är vad de alltid gjort. Men allra mest lär de oss vad vi vet om oss själva."

Helen Macdonald har erövrat världen med sin originella H som i hök, en gripande berättelse om en ung kvinna som tillbringar ett år i skogen tillsammans med en hök. Boken har belönats med många priser och blivit en bästsäljare världen över.

I Aftonflykter skildrar Helen Macdonald djurens och människans skilda världar. Vi blir påminda om att vi är långt ifrån ensamma på vår planet; naturen är en oerhört rik värld, som vi knappt vet något om.

Aftonflykter är en inspirerande bok om hur vi med djurens hjälp kan förstå mer om oss själva. Gripande och rakt, personligt och politiskt, visar Helen Macdonald att hon är en av världens bästa naturskildrare idag.

En lättillgänglig och välskriven bok med drabbande aktualitet.

"En av de märkvärdigaste böcker jag har läst."
Ingalill Mosander om H som i hök, Go'kväll, SVT

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Overcoming Chronic Pain
av Frances Cole, Helen MacDonald, Catherine Carus, Hazel Howden-Leach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy treats disorders by changing patterns of behaviour and thought that may be unhelpful. It is now internationally established as a key method of helping overcome longstanding and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical. This book provides a clinically proven self-help approach to pain management based on the authors' work with sufferers at Bradford Hospital. Chronic pain that has lasted more than six months can be caused by a number of factors including stress, prolonged muscle tension and the fact that nerves carrying the pain message have developed a long-term 'memory' for the pain. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help patients become more active, relieve negative feelings, reduce their distress and help them to manage pain more effectively. Helps you understand why pain persists when there's no injury or disease present Explains how to use drugs more effectively Gives guidance for how to become fitter and more active Practical tips on improving sleep and relaxation Better management of depression, anxiety and anger Advice on maintaining healthy and happy relationships with family and friends Drawing on feedback from hundreds of pain patients, Overcoming Chronic Pain will help readers escape from the distressing cycle of chronic pain.

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Nutrition and Metabolism
av Susan A Lanham-New, Ian A MacDonald, Helen M Roche
Nutrition and Metabolism Nutrition and Metabolism In this second edition of the second title in the acclaimed Nutrition Society Textbook Series, Nutrition and Metabolism has been revised and updated to meet the needs of the contemporary student. Ground-breaking in scope and approach, this title: Provide students with the required scientific basics of nutrition in the context of a systems and health approach Enable teachers and students to explore the core principles of nutrition, to apply these throughout their training, and to foster critical thinking at all times Is fully peer-reviewed, to ensure completeness and clarity of content, as well as to ensure that each book takes a global perspective Nutrition and Metabolism is an essential purchase for students of nutrition and dietetics, and also for those students who major in other subjects that have a nutrition component, such as food science, medicine, pharmacy and nursing. Professionals in nutrition, dietetics, food science, medicine, health sciences and many related areas will also find much of great value within its pages. Other books in the Nutrition Society Textbook Series Introduction to Human Nutrition ISBN 9781405168076 Clinical Nutrition ISBN 9780632056262 Public Health Nutrition ISBN 9780632056279 For further information, companion material for use with these textbooks, and full details of how to purchase them, visit: www.wiley.com/go/nutritionsociety

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El azor
av T H White, Helen MacDonald
Un bello clsico de la literatura que reflexiona sobre el vnculo entre ser humano y animal. Cul es la relacin entre hombre y bestia? Publicado por primera vez en 1951, El azor describe con desnuda honestidad la trascendental experiencia de White al intentar entrenar un azor salvaje, un tipo de ave muy difcil de adiestrar. Sin conocimientos previos y armado con unos pocos manuales de cetrera anticuados, White intent doblegar la voluntad de Gos, el joven pjaro que haba comprado en Alemania. A pesar de conocer una derrota tras otra en su empeo, White descubri que el cario y el afecto que senta por la salvaje criatura crecan a medida que pasaba el tiempo y su fracaso se haca ms evidente. Finalmente, el animal termin por liberar al solitario White de sus demonios y le permiti alcanzar la salvacin personal. El azor es una historia de superacin y reflexin, una lucha de voluntades equiparable a la del capitn Ahab y Moby Dick ambientada en la idlica campia inglesa. Como Moby Dick o El viejo y el mar, El azor es un encuentro literario entre animal y hombre que bebe de las tradicciones puritanas del desafo espiritual, que hacen de la salvacin un premio que ganar en un desafo contra Dios."Helen Macdonald, autora de H de halcn"El azor es un libro increble. White tiene buen ojo narrativo y una mente gil, y sus observaciones sobre el entorno dotan de placer cmico a un libro que de otro modo sera oscuro."The New Yorker"Cmico, trgico, primario y original como las grandes tempestades [] Una obra maestra, sin duda."Daily Telegraph"Una de las narraciones ms apasionantes, tiernas y entretenidas sobre el mundo de la naturaleza."The Irish Times

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H de halcÃ³n
av Helen MacDonald, Carlos Galindo
A raiz de la inesperada muerte de su padre, Helen Macdonald decide comprar y adiestrar un azor, el ave de presa mas peligrosa y letal. Asi empieza un viaje de exploracion a lo mas profundo del dolor y de lo salvaje, que llevara a la autora al limite de la locura y cambiara su vida. Destinado a convertirse en un clsico, H de halcn es un libro sobre el recuerdo, la naturaleza y el ser humano. Una leccin magistral acerca de cmo reconciliar la vida y la muerte. H de halcn se convirti en un fenmeno de ventas en Reino Unido, donde gan los prestigiosos premios Samuel Johnson y Costa y cosech elogios unnimes de la crtica literaria anglosajona. Premio Samuel Johnson al mejor libro de No FiccinPremio Costa al mejor libro del ao"Es msica. No he podido parar de leer hasta terminarlo."Mark Haddon"Un libro exuberante que eleva al lector como un ave rapaz ascendiendo hacia el cielo."Philip Hoare"El hermoso y casi salvaje libro de Helen Macdonald nos recuerda que la excelente escritura desnuda el carcter ntimo de la naturaleza indomable."The New York Times"Un relato completamente realista de una relacin humana con una conciencia animal Es una maravilla."The Sunday Times"H de halcn es uno de los libros ms conmovedores y maravillosos que he ledo en mi vida. Es un libro sobre la prdida del amor, la desesperacin que provoca y cmo lograr consuelo mirando a la naturaleza y a la vez al interior de uno mismo."Jacinto Antn, El Pas"Cautivador Su prosa extremadamente cuidada es brillante. El mundo anglosajn estuvo fascinado hace tiempo por los libros sobre animales o compaeros apasionantes Es muy posible que Helen Macdonald reviva ese gnero."Mark Cocker, The Guardian"La prosa de Macdonald es potica, de precisin forense, y sin embargo a menudo te acelera el pulso. Su lxico es vvido y exuberante, se eleva con la misma libertad con la que asciende un halcn."Benjamin Myers, New Scientist"Una de las crnicas ms elocuentes del duelo que se pueden leer Una crnica alada del dolor."Caroline SandersonThe Bookseller"Lo que ha conseguido es muy poco habitual en la literatura: un relato completamente realista de una relacin humana con una conciencia animal Es una maravilla cuya estrella es Mabel."John Carey, Sunday Times"Trenzada con inteligencia y casi devastadora Se merece vender libros a carretadas y ganar premios por docenas, pues es una reflexin sobre la naturaleza cuya espectacular calidad la convierte tambin en literatura."Angus Clarke, The Times"Emocionante. Helen Macdonald nos ofrece una narracin inolvidable de la feroz esencia de una criatura salvaje y sus palabras son como plumas, tan imposiblemente hermosas que casi no nos damos cuenta del prodigio de ingeniera literaria que ha construido."New York Times Book Review

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Iltalentoja
av Helen MacDonald
Kaunis, herättelevä esseekokoelma ihmisen ja luonnon suhteesta

Palkitun H niin kuin haukan jälkeen Helen Macdonald valloittaa monipuolisella esseekokoelmalla, joka herättelee havainnoimaan ja ymmärtämään luontoa - ja samalla itseämme. Iltalentoja vie sienestämään, rengastamaan Thamesin joutsenia ja seuraamaan lintujen iltalentoja korkeuksissa Empire State Buildingin katolta. Tosiasiat tunnustavan ja empaattisen ajattelijan tekstit avaavat elävien lajien kiehtovaa maailmaa ja tämän hetken tärkeimpiä aiheita: ilmastonmuutosta, lajikatoa ja sen seurauksia.

Heti ilmestyttyään englanniksi Iltalentoja nousi NY Timesin bestseller-listoille, ja se valittiin Time Magazinessa kymmenen parhaan tietokirjan joukkoon vuodelta 2020.

"Iltalentojen loistava ilmaisu vahvistaa Macdonaldin asemaa yhtenä aikamme suurista luontokirjailijoista - ja soivana surun äänenä ilmastonmuutoksen hävitysten äärellä. Lue lumoutuaksesi, lue varoituksena." - Time Magazine

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H niin kuin haukka
av Helen MacDonald
Lapsena Helen halusi haukankasvattajaksi. Hän ahmi haukoista kertovia kirjoja, tutki alaa lapsen intohimolla, eikä unohtanut unelmaansa aikuistuttuaan. Kun nelikymppisen Helenin isä kuolee, suru lannistaa hänet ja lapsuuden intohimo nousee pakkomielteeksi. Helen ostaa kymmenviikkoisen kanahaukkanaaraan kahdeksallasadalla punnalla, vie sen kotiinsa Cambridgessa, täyttää pakastimen haukanruoalla ja sulkee puhelimen. Tästä alkaa pitkä, vaiherikas yritys kesyttää villieläin. Tämä aseistariisuva kirja hämmästytti ilmestymisvuotenaan kirjamaailman. Siitä tuli yllättävä bestseller ja klassikko Yhdysvalloissa ja Britanniassa: kirja sai arvostettuja kirjapalkintoja ja sen oikeudet on myyty yli kahteenkymmeneen maahan Japanista Brasiliaan ja Eurooppaan. Kirja on kuin kaleidoskooppi, surua työstävän Helen Macdonaldin ja kanahaukka Mabelin tarinaan yhdistyy historioitsijan näkemys perinteiden ja nykyaikaisten luontokäsitysten kohtaamisesta. Tämä on kirja muistoista, luonnosta ja historiasta - siitä, kuinka löytää elämä ja rakkaus uudelleen läheisen kuoleman jälkeen

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Overcoming Chronic Pain 2nd Edition
av Frances Cole, Helen MacDonald, Catherine Carus
Take control of your life, take control of your painChronic pain can be extremely debilitating; however, it does not need to dominate your life. This self-help book is based on highly effective self-help methods developed by specialists and used in community and hospital pain management programmes. Your experience of pain can be greatly reduced by pacing daily activities, reducing stress, learning relaxation techniques and effective ways to cope with depression, anxiety, worry, anger and frustration.This easy-to-follow book sets out:- Why pain can persist when there's no injury or disease present- How to become fitter and pace your activities- Practical ways to improve sleep and relaxation- Tips for returning to work, study and gaining a life you valueOvercoming self-help guides use clinically proven techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical.This book is recommended by the national Reading Well scheme for England delivered by The Reading Agency and the Society of Chief Librarians with funding from Arts Council England and Wellcome.

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Understanding Tuberculosis and its Control

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Understanding Tuberculosis and its Control
av Helen MacDonald, Ian Harper
Over the last two decades, attempts to control the problem of tuberculosis have become increasingly more complex, as countries adopt and adapt to evolving global TB strategies. Significant funding has also increased apace, diagnostic possibilities have evolved, and greater attention is being paid to developing broader health systems. Against this background, this book examines tuberculosis control through an anthropological lens. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from China, India, Nepal, South Africa, Romania, Brazil, Ghana and France, the volume considers: the relationship between global and national policies and their unintended effects; the emergence and impact of introducing new diagnostics; the reliance on and use of statistical numbers for representing tuberculosis, and the politics of this; the impact of the disease on health workers, as well as patients; the rise of drug-resistant forms; and issues of attempted control. Together, the examples showcase the value of an anthropological understanding to demonstrate the broader bio-political and social dimensions of tuberculosis and attempts to deal with it.

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Child Neglect
av Moira Walker, Jan Horwath, Geraldine MacDonald, Danielle Turney, Helen Buckley
Neglect is now recognized as leading to significantly poor outcomes for children in the short and long term. It is a matter of concern for all professionals who work with children. Children who are neglected are not likely to seek help in their own right and are highly dependent on professionals such as health visitors and schoolteachers identifying and responding to their needs for support and protection.In order to carry out the key tasks of prevention, recognition and response to neglect, practitioners require up-to-date evidence-based information about the aetiology and signs of neglect and what works in prevention and response. This book addresses the key themes in child neglect, draws on current research and practice knowledge and sets out the implications for practice. With a joint health and social work focus, this interdisciplinary book is an essential resource for practitioners, academics and policy makers working towards integrated and collaborative childcare services.

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Poems on Nature
av Helen MacDonald, Gaby Morgan
The poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time.Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library series, featuring expert introductions for your favourite classics. This edition features an introduction by Helen Macdonald, author of the international bestseller, H is for Hawk.Since poetry began, there have been poems about nature; it's a complex subject which has inspired some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. Poets from Andrew Marvell to W. B. Yeats to Emily Bronte have sought to describe the natural environment and our relationship with it. There is also a rich tradition of songs and rhymes, such as 'Scarborough Fair', that hark back to a rural way of life which may now be lost, but is brought back to life in the lyrical verses included in this collection.

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Understanding Tuberculosis and its Control
av Helen MacDonald, Ian Harper
Over the last two decades, attempts to control the problem of tuberculosis have become increasingly more complex, as countries adopt and adapt to evolving global TB strategies. Significant funding has also increased apace, diagnostic possibilities have evolved, and greater attention is being paid to developing broader health systems. Against this background, this book examines tuberculosis control through an anthropological lens. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from China, India, Nepal, South Africa, Romania, Brazil, Ghana and France, the volume considers: the relationship between global and national policies and their unintended effects; the emergence and impact of introducing new diagnostics; the reliance on and use of statistical numbers for representing tuberculosis, and the politics of this; the impact of the disease on health workers, as well as patients; the rise of drug-resistant forms; and issues of attempted control. Together, the examples showcase the value of an anthropological understanding to demonstrate the broader bio-political and social dimensions of tuberculosis and attempts to deal with it.

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Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook

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Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook
av Dr Laura Kelly, Helen Bryman Kelly, Dr Sidney Macdonald Baker
A Medicine Through Food(TM) Guide"This book has the answers that conventional medicine keeps missing. I highly recommend." Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times bestselling authorIncludes over 100 recipes, worksheets, and tools to help create a personal nutritional plan! Drugs that claim to prevent or redress bone loss can actually cause bones to crumble and break. Calcium supplements, fortified processed food, and pasteurized dairy don't work because the calcium in them doesn't reach our bones. It s a grim picture, but The Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook can help. Coauthors Dr. Laura Kelly and Helen Bryman Kelly, daughter and mother, have a firm grasp on the disciplines concerned with bone health, including nutrient absorption and bone metabolism. They offer readers a natural, effective, and safe approach to conserving bone mass and building healthy bones by creating a personalized nutrition plan that includes eating the right foods in the right combinations.The authors quest for a natural, effective, safe way to prevent and treat bone loss began after 20 years of frustration, during which Helen tried supplements and several popular dietary approaches to arrest bone loss, only to see her bones continue to deteriorate year by year. Drawing on her knowledge of metabolic science and a rigorous examination of current research, Laura created a unique diet-based approach to bone health that allowed Helen s body to absorb the nutrients that are naturally present in whole foods. Helen has been following her personal nutrition plan for four years and has stopped her bone loss completely without taking any pharmaceuticals.Part One of the book begins with a primer on bone metabolism, including the roles of individual vitamins, minerals, and enzymes that can help build strong bones. Building on this knowledge and more, the authors provide a framework and worksheets so readers can use the recipes and work with their doctors to create their personal nutrition plan for skeletal health.The book includes more than 100 bone-health recipes ranging from sauces and small plates to soups, salads, and main dishes, drinks and desserts. The authors also explain how to make staple ingredients such as ghee and bone health vinegar and how to grow shiitake mushrooms an important source of vitamin D. Readers can count on their personal nutrition plans and the Kellys recipes to provide food that helps calcium reach, and potentially strengthen, their bones.

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Mr. Blue
av Helen MacDonald
I would like to thank everyone who helped to publish this book and especially thank my sister Ann Macdonald for motivating me to write this book. Thank you!

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Sustainable Water
av Philippe Quevauviller, Alan M MacDonald, Helen Bonsor, Roger Calow, Ulrich Borchers
It is predicted that climate change will result in big changes to the global distribution of rainfall, causing drought and desertification in some regions and floods in others. Already there are signs of such changes occurring, with particularly serious consequences for poorer countries. The need for international cooperation in managing the effects of climate change, and other influences on the hydrological cycle, is becoming urgent. Future wars may well be fought over water. This book is part of a series focusing on key issues in environmental science and technology. Focusing on the sustainability of water supplies to the growing populations throughout the world, this volume consists of articles contributed by a group of experts drawn from around the globe. Issues covered include: policy making in the European Union; rural water supplies in Africa; chemical monitoring and analytical methods; water use in agriculture; social justice in supplying water; potable water recycling, and sustainable water treatment. The book will be useful to those working in the water industry, policy makers and planners, researchers and environmental consultants, and students in environmental science, technology, engineering, and management. There is also much here to interest all concerned with major environmental issues such as climate change and the many other factors which influence the sustainability of water supplies.

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Vesper Flights
av Helen MacDonald
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**

''Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world'' Observer

Animals don''t exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.

From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.

Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best-loved writing along with new pieces covering a thrilling range of subjects. There are essays here on headaches, on catching swans, on hunting mushrooms, on twentieth-century spies, on numinous experiences and high-rise buildings; on nests and wild pigs and the tribulations of farming ostriches.

Vesper Flights is a book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make the world around us. Moving and frank, personal and political, it confirms Helen Macdonald as one of this century''s greatest nature writers. A perfect read for anyone looking for renewed appreciation for the natural world.

''Helen Macdonald is one of the best nature writers now working'' The Telegraph

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Nutrition and Metabolism
av Susan A Lanham-New, Ian A MacDonald, Helen M Roche
Nutrition and Metabolism Nutrition and Metabolism In this second edition of the second title in the acclaimed Nutrition Society Textbook Series, Nutrition and Metabolism has been revised and updated to meet the needs of the contemporary student. Ground-breaking in scope and approach, this title: Provide students with the required scientific basics of nutrition in the context of a systems and health approach Enable teachers and students to explore the core principles of nutrition, to apply these throughout their training, and to foster critical thinking at all times Is fully peer-reviewed, to ensure completeness and clarity of content, as well as to ensure that each book takes a global perspective Nutrition and Metabolism is an essential purchase for students of nutrition and dietetics, and also for those students who major in other subjects that have a nutrition component, such as food science, medicine, pharmacy and nursing. Professionals in nutrition, dietetics, food science, medicine, health sciences and many related areas will also find much of great value within its pages. Other books in the Nutrition Society Textbook Series Introduction to Human Nutrition ISBN 9781405168076 Clinical Nutrition ISBN 9780632056262 Public Health Nutrition ISBN 9780632056279 For further information, companion material for use with these textbooks, and full details of how to purchase them, visit: www.wiley.com/go/nutritionsociety

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Witchcraft Accusations from Central India

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Witchcraft Accusations from Central India
av Helen MacDonald
This book unravels the institutions surrounding witchcraft in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh through theoretical and empirical research on witchcraft, violence and modernity in contemporary times. The author pieces together 'fragments' of stories gathered utilising ethnographic methods to examine the meanings associated with witches and witchcraft, and how they connect with social relations, gender, notions of agency, law, media and the state. The volume uses the metaphor of the shattered urn to tell the story of the accusations, punishment, rescue and the aftermath of the events of the trial of women accused of being witches. It situates the a onhA or witch as a key elaborating symbol that orders behaviour to determine who the socially included and excluded are in communities. Through the personal interviews and other ethnographic methods conducted over the course of many years, the author delves into the stories and practices related to witchcraft, its relations with modernity, and the relationship between violence and ideological norms in society. Insightful and detailed, this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers of anthropology, development studies, sociology, history, violence, gender studies, tribal studies and psychology. It will also be useful for readers in both historic and contemporary witchcraft practices as well as policy makers.

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