Salem possessed :the social origins of witchcraft /[by] Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum.
Description
Preface -- Salem Village int he seventeenth century: a chronology -- Abbreviations used in the notes -- Prologue: what happened in 1692 -- 1692: some new perspectives -- In quest of community, 1639-1687 -- Afflicted village, 1688-1697 -- Salem Town and Salem Village: the dynamics of factional conflict -- Two families: the Porters and the Putnams -- Joseph and his brothers: a story of the Putnam family -- Samuel Parris: a Pilgrim in Bethlehem -- Witchcraft and social identity -- Epilogue: to the eighteenth century -- Index.
xxi, 231 p. :ill. ;25 cm.