The Relations of Envy in an Egyptian Village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2737529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amítav Ghosh (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 211 |
| Publication date | 1983-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1828 • E-ISSN: 2160-3510 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3773463 |
| OpenAlex | W1582031431 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 6 |
Although beliefs and practices related to the evil eye are almost certainly as common as witchcraft or sorcery, they have received much less attention from anthropologists. Folklorists on the other hand, have collected a good deal of material on the subject (Dorson 1968:417), but much of it is inventorial in its perspective; objects, artifacts and practices believed to ward off the evil eye are simply listed without reference to their social context (e.g., Burne 1902; Rouse 1895; Simpson 1915). As a result, it sometimes appears as if Evil Eye beliefs have no internal coherence and represent little more than a generalized fear of evil. One of the reasons why evil eye beliefs appear to be formless, sociologically speaking, is that the relations which underlie them are far less obvious than those which are associated with, for example, witchcraft. As Spooner (1970) points out, evil eye practices do not lead to public accusations, and so they do not yield the clear patterns of relationship which accusations, involving as they do accusers and accused necessarily do. Yet evil eye beliefs do have their own systematic logic, and they too are oriented by specific relations. But these relations differ radically from those which underlie witchcraft and other forms of directed malevolence. The fact that
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2025 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |