The Power of Knowledge

Abstract MAGIC, witchcraft, and healing constitute a field of indigenous explanations of individual success or misfortune. It is worth remembering, therefore, that in the social experience of the Icelanders, death and disaster were recurrent phenomena. Demographic crisis, economic stagnation and dec...

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Main Author: Hastrup, Kirsten
Format: Book Part
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Published: Oxford University PressOxford 1990
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Iceland
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spelling croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780198277286.003.0008 2023-12-31T10:08:14+01:00 The Power of Knowledge Hastrup, Kirsten 1990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198277286.003.0008 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52477522/isbn-9780198277286-book-part-8.pdf unknown Oxford University PressOxford Nature and Policy in Iceland 1400–1800 page 197-243 ISBN 9780198277286 9781383016512 book-chapter 1990 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198277286.003.0008 2023-12-06T08:39:41Z Abstract MAGIC, witchcraft, and healing constitute a field of indigenous explanations of individual success or misfortune. It is worth remembering, therefore, that in the social experience of the Icelanders, death and disaster were recurrent phenomena. Demographic crisis, economic stagnation and decline, worsening climate, and unfavourable trade regulations, all contributed to the Icelandic view of the human condition. From 1400 to 1800 catastrophe always lurked in the background, in Iceland as elsewhere in Europe. Whenever disaster struck explanations were called for, and some were found within the field of popular belief. Book Part Iceland Oxford University Press (via Crossref) 197 243
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description Abstract MAGIC, witchcraft, and healing constitute a field of indigenous explanations of individual success or misfortune. It is worth remembering, therefore, that in the social experience of the Icelanders, death and disaster were recurrent phenomena. Demographic crisis, economic stagnation and decline, worsening climate, and unfavourable trade regulations, all contributed to the Icelandic view of the human condition. From 1400 to 1800 catastrophe always lurked in the background, in Iceland as elsewhere in Europe. Whenever disaster struck explanations were called for, and some were found within the field of popular belief.
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