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Title: | The evil eye (ghajn) in Malta : grappling with Skinner’s pigeons and rehabilitating lame ducks |
Authors: | Baldacchino, Jean Paul |
Keywords: | Superstition Superstition -- Psychological aspects Superstition -- History Amulets Evil eye |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Publisher: | The Australian Journal of Anthropology |
Citation: | Baldacchino, J. P. (2010). The Evil Eye (ghajn) in Malta : grappling with Skinner’s pigeons and rehabilitating lame ducks. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 21, 188-207. |
Abstract: | In this paper, I construct a plea for superstition and examine the ways in which contemporary scholars use the term to denote irrational belief. ‘Superstition’ has, throughout history, been used as a derogatory term denoting inferior and dangerous beliefs. Examining the process whereby people continue to believe that which they deem irrational, I adopt a reflexive and phenomenological approach. Focussing on the evil eye (gh- ajn) in Malta and the Mediterranean, I redefine ‘superstition’ as the product of an intrasubjective antinomy between orthodoxy and its subversion. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/15420 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtAS |
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