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020			_a9781478031352
028			_aRaghav Books Pvt. Ltd _bA-184, A, Nand Gram, Ghaziabad _c871 _d21/08/2025
082			_a133.4 CHA
100			_aChaudhuri, Soma.
100			_a; Ward, Jane.
245			_aThe Witch Studies Reader _c/ Soma Chaudhuri.
260			_a, London _b: Duke University Press _c, 2025.
300			_ax, 507p. _c: 24cm.
520			_aStories about witches are by their nature stories about the most basic and profound of human experiences—healing, sex, violence, tragedies, aging, death, and encountering the mystery and magic of the unknown. It is no surprise, then, that witches loom large in our cultural imaginations. In academia, studies of witches rarely emerge from scholars who are themselves witches and/or embedded in communities of witchcraft practitioners. The Witch Studies Reader brings together a diverse group of scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners who examine witchcraft from a critical decolonial feminist perspective that decenters Europe and departs from exoticizing and pathologizing writing on witchcraft in the global South. The authors show how witches are keepers of suppressed knowledges, builders of new futures, exemplars of praxis, and theorists in their own right. Throughout, they account for the vastly different national, political-economic, and cultural contexts in which “the witch” is currently being claimed and repudiated. Offering a pathbreaking transnational feminist examination of witches and witchcraft that upends white supremacist, colonial, patriarchal knowledge regimes, this volume brings into being the interdisciplinary field of feminist witch studies.
650			_aStories about witches
650			_aHuman experiences
650			_aMystery and magic
700			_aSoma Chaudhuri
942			_cBOOK
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