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- Title
The Evil Eye ( għajn) in Malta: Grappling with Skinner's pigeons and rehabilitating lame ducks<sup>1</sup>.
- Authors
Baldacchino, Jean-Paul
- 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 ( għajn) in Malta and the Mediterranean, I redefine 'superstition' as the product of an intrasubjective antinomy between orthodoxy and its subversion.
- Subjects
MALTA; EVIL eye; DEMONOLOGY; EYES in folklore; SUPERSTITION
- Publication
Australian Journal of Anthropology, 2010, Vol 21, Issue 2, p188
- ISSN
1035-8811
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1757-6547.2010.00078.x