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Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Salem Possessed.: Paul S. Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum, Stephen Wilner Nissenbaum. Harvard University Press, - Salem (Mass.) - 4/5(4). Salem possessed; the social origins of witchcraft Item Preview remove-circle the social origins of witchcraft by Boyer, Paul S; Nissenbaum, Stephen. happened in -- some new perspectives -- In quest of community, -- Afflicted village, -- Salem Town and Salem Village: the dynamics of factional conflict User Interaction Count: K. Salem Possessed was born from Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum’s attempts at broadening the primary source material for an undergraduate course involving the New England Salem Witch Trials. The book reflects this, including a myriad of documents which previous scholarship on the trials had left untouched, and a unique perspective because of it/5.

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“ An important, imaginative book that brings new insights to the study of the witchcraft outbreak in Massachusetts. Building on Charles Upham’s Salem Witchcraft (), Boyer and Nissenbaum explore decades of community tension and conflict in order to explain why Salem was the focus of this episode. The authors reveal a complex set of relationships between persons allied with the growing mercantile interests of Salem Town and those linked to the subsistence-based economy of outlying. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft is an academic work focusing on the Salem witch trials. First published by Harvard University Press in , the book offers an alternative explanation for the phenomenon of witch hysteria and its special relevance to the town of Salem, Massachusetts. Salem Possessed is a provocative book. Drawing upon an impressive range of unpublished local sources, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum provide a challenging new interpretation of the outbreak of witchcraft in Salem Village. The authors argue that previous historians erroneously divorced the tragic events of i from the long-term development of the.