Boyer, Paul S., <br/><br/>
Salem possessed :  the social origins of witchcraft / 
Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. 
 - xxi, 231 pages :  illustrations, maps, charts, genealogical tables ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it."--Back cover. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0674785258 9780674785250 9780674785267 0674785266 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>73084399 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>751020265  can 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Porter family.<br/>Putnam family.<br/>Porter family.<br/>Putnam family.<br/>Putnam.<br/>Porter.<br/>Putnam family.<br/>Porter family.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>Geschichte 1600-1700. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Witchcraft--Massachusetts--Salem.<br/>Witchcraft--Social aspects--Massachusetts--Salem.<br/>Witchcraft--history.<br/>HISTORY--Social History.<br/>Witchcraft--Social aspects.<br/>Witchcraft.<br/>Witchcraft--Massachusetts.<br/>Hekserij.<br/>Hexenglaube<br/><br/>Sorcellerie------Salem (Mass.)<br/>Witchcraft--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Massachusetts--Salem.<br/>United States, Massachusetts, Essex, Salem--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.<br/>United States, Massachusetts, Essex, Salem--Genealogy.<br/>Salem, Mass.<br/>Salem (Mass.)--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Student Collection.<br/>Biographies.<br/>Biographies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KFM2478.8.W5  / B68 BF1576  / .B6 1974 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>301.2/1