Thursday, February 12, 2009
Possible Abstract?
This is the possible Abstract for my Anthropology Paper. I'll need to get it approved, but I think it establishes all the points I wish to cover.
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The internet is a powerful medium in today’s world. It has helped the world with commerce, connecting to people we were unlikely to meet twenty years ago, as well as a whole of host of other issues. This paper focuses on how the internet has helped shape the religion known as Wicca into an international religious and cultural community. Members of all walks of life and practicing various paths from Gardnerian Wicca to Eclectic Wicca have used the internet to keep in contact with others and help others within the Craft of the Wise. It has helped those who seek the Goddess and God and allows for fair and sometimes unfair communication between members. But how does Anthropology play a part in the internet age? How can anthropologists use the internet to understand various walks of life? The internet is solidifying the world into a global community.
I have several specific points to make in this paper, including how anthropologists can help fight religious intolerance in Africa and other parts of the world where intolerance for witches continue to this day. I will attempt to show how anthropology is still needed in this day and age. I hope to bring an understanding to people concerning the religion known as Wicca and how it differs from witchcraft as presented in Evans-Pritchard’s Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. During the course of this paper I will compare and contrast Wicca in the western world with witchcraft in Africa.
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