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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research evidence has shown that adverse occurrences within the kinship caregiving environment, such as the grandparents' experiences of violence and abuse, may introduce new stressors or exacerbate existing aged‐related challenges, leading to adverse impacts on grandparent kinship carers.
Hajara Bentum +2 more
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Witchcraft stigmatization and abuse of children in Akwa-Ibom state, Nigeria
International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2019 In this age of intellectual progress and technological advancement, strange beliefs are still rife, and misfortunes are blamed on witches in many societies. In the past, the avowed witches were the aged.
Chineyemba Lydia Isioma
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The Marked and the Magic in \u3cem\u3eProspero’s Daughter\u3c/em\u3e: Contextualizing Postmodern Witchcraft Accusations Using the Early Modern [PDF]
, 2019 Despite Prospero’s Daughter having won Elizabeth Nunez a handful of awards and having been received positively by critics, little aside from reviews about the novel exists in the literary sphere.
Gomez, Olivia
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Memorias, 2022 El propósito de este estudio es el de examinar el proceso que se abrió contra tres mujeres: María González, María Bautista y María de Cárdenas, por parte del Tribunal de la Inquisición de Toledo, que ocupó cientos de folios y que se prolongó de 1645 a 1647.
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Naomi Mitchison’s we have been warned (1935) in post-referendum Scotland [PDF]
, 2016 Mitchison weaves a realist political novel about the lives of two upper-middle class women in 1930s Britain with abstract forays into Scottish folklore as the kelpies follow the sisters, haunting their modern activities. Sometimes the dialogue is stilted,
Mcfarlane, Anna
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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NamesThis article investigates the motivations and ideological foundations of religion-based personal names among a sampled population of the Tiv community who are predominantly found along the middle Benue Valley in Benue State, North-central Nigeria.
Eyo O. Mensah
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Words and deeds: gender and the language of abuse in Elizabethan Norfolk [PDF]
, 2014 Research into the regulation of speech in early modern England has tended to focus on common scolds and thus on the control of disorderly women. Yet scolds accounted for only a minority of those prosecuted for speech offences in Elizabethan England.
Spaeth, Donald
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La (re)connaissance des voies négociées
Droit et Cultures, 2008 The article brings forward two cases in French juvenile courts: they involve two minors from Sub-Sahara Africa origin who have been accused of witchcraft. It analyses the law as a tool focusing on cultural differences.
Jackie B. Loteteka-Kalala
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Suspicion as care: Rumor and accusation in community mental health
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Perú’s transition from mental healthcare in psychiatric hospitals to a Community Mental Health (CMH) model. Based on 18 months of fieldwork on the outskirts of Lima, I show that one of CMH's effects has been an unexpected increase in rumors and accusations between neighbors.
Julio Villa‐Palomino
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