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Start studying 14 - Songhay, In Sorcery's Shadow (Paul Stoller). Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Dozens of new spells designed for MIDNIGHT, but useful in any campaign. New covenant items, powerful magical weapons and gear that increase in power along with the characters. New feats, prestige classes, spell-boosting charms, and magic options for channelers, wizards, druids, and even legates, the evil disciples of the Shadow. Stoller and Olkes’ (1987) In Sorcery’s Shadow is a record of five journeys to Niger, undertaken by the authors between 1976 and 1984. All the time Stoller is the narrator, speaking in the first person, from here on I will be referring mostly to him. At first Stoller plans to undertake conventional ethnographic research from an etic perspective. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger at Amazon.com. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users.

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In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship Among the Songhay of Niger Paul Stoller, Author, Cheryl Olkes, With University of Chicago Press $24 (252p) ISBN 978-0-226-77542-5 More By and About.

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The tribal sorcerer is both hunter and hunted in a world of power seekers. The ominous sense of a narrowly oppressive quest for power is captured in this startling field report by an anthropologist who was himself initiated into African sorcery. Stoller made five field trips to study the Songhay, proud, fierce subsistence farmers of Niger. Becoming an apprentice, then a practitioner of the black arts, he took part in one ritual attack that, he claims, paralyzed the face of the intended victim's sister. After hostile sorcerers' spells temporarily paralyzed the author's legs, he began carrying around protective charms. On his last field trip, he was joined by his coauthor wife, a sociologist; she adds a measure of objectivity to this firsthand account. Although the narrative unfolds slowly and doesn't measure up as the metaphysical adventure it might have been, it is nevertheless a responsible attempt to pierce a hidden realm. (December)
Reviewed on: 06/01/1989
Release date: 06/01/1989
Genre: Nonfiction

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