Why Salem Made Sense: Culture, Gender, and the Puritan Persecution of Witchcraft  

Oleh:

Reed, Isaac

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Cultural Sociology vol. 1 no. 2 (Jul. 2007), page 209-234.
Topik: cultural sociology / culture / gender / interpretation / Salem witch trials / witch-hunts
Fulltext: 209.pdf (305.81KB)

Isi artikel

Sociological explanations of the Salem witch trials, and of witch-hunts in the West more generally, have focused on economic transition, political instability, and the functional aspects of witchcraft belief. A more interpretive approach to the explanation of Salem is proposed: an analysis of the intersection of the gendered symbolization of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts and the larger tensions within Puritan culture at the close of the 17th century. A broad theoretical implication of this interpretive shift is also proposed: that a cultural-sociological approach to witch-hunting as symbolic action can bring together feminist theorizations of witch-hunting as an exercise in patriarchal power with the social history of the broad, structural causes of witchhunting in pre-modern Europe and New England.

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