16.7 2nd and 3rd years Dr Mary Patterson. Normally one first year Anthropology subject (12.5 points). Second semester A 2-hour lecture/seminar and a 1-hour tutorial a week. Students completing this subject should be able to:

• make a critical analysis of the ways in which anthropologists have attempted to explain the phenomena in question.
• understand the nature of beliefs and practices about supernatural malevolence in relation to arguments about rationality.
• present some arguments about the interpretation of evil in society in relation to issues of race, class, gender and colonialism.

The subject entails a cross-cultural and historical investigation of the beliefs and activities seen as manifestations of evil in the world, from sorcery and witchcraft in Africa, the Pacific and the Americas to witchcraft revivals and 'witch hunts' in the modern world. Essay (50%); tutorial presentation (10%); take-home examination (40%), totalling no more than 5,000 words.