Covert Institutionality: Sacred Mountains, Witches and Exorcists

Abstract

I develop an account of covert institutional facts by examining sacred objects, witches, shamans and exorcists. I present an account of sacred objects as covert institutional entities, and distinguish between true beliefs that help create the institutional facts and false beliefs about their origin and/or their physical powers.

Keywords

• sacred objects
• institutions
• error theories
• covert institutional facts
• witchcraft