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The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island by Nils Bubandt (Paperback, 2014)

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The reality of gua, therefore, can never be pinned down. Convention has it that if you find a live nautilus, you are a gua. A detailed ethnography of the encompassing inaccessibility of Buli witchcraft leads him to the conclusion that much of the anthropological literature, which views witchcraft as a system of beliefs with genuine explanatory power, is off the mark.