The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island
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Witchcraft in Buli establishes as a real possibility such “bad” or impossible “deaths,” and thus I claim that witchcraft in Buli is aporetic for a reason that is similar, if not identical, to death’s aporia in Western metaphysics: it represents a nonviability, an impasse, that allows no proper path for understanding, emotional comfort, or experience, and therefore continuously produces perplexity and doubt as its main condition of being-hidden.
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“The shit-eating dog,” as the Buli proverb has it, “will always eat shit”