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Sorcery and witchcraft beliefs on the front line of public health response in Papua New Guinea and beyond [PDF]
Western Pacific Surveillance and ResponseProblem: Many communities refer to sorcery or witchcraft to explain misfortunes such as sickness, death and disability. The effects of these beliefs on public health service delivery have long been overlooked.
Miranda Forsyth +5 more
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Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, 2016 The paper on customary law, traditional wounding and death in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of Central Australia raises questions about the safety of using certain forms of tribal punishments outside a controlled context [1]. It also provides an opportunity to examine other indigenous beliefs around life and death, particularly ...
Roger W. Byard
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Ethnology, 1999 Despite the considerable literature on the Tolai that has been produced by modern anthropologists as well as earlier ethnographers, we still lack a contemporary account of their notions of sorcery and its practice. This article is an attempt to plug this gap.
A. L. Epstein
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Publication and Privacy: Science and Sorcery?
Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, 2009 “See my thoughts and feelings fill the paper, seems I’ll never, never really know why when other people talk and chatter, I would rather, rather write a song”1 “Publish or perish,” the battlecry of modern academia, may well be perceived
José Florencio F. Lapeña
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Sorcery objects under institutional tutelage
Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 2013 This essay returns to a discussion of two collections of objects taken from two terreiros (places of worship) for Afro-Brazilian cults, namely the Magia Negra (Black Magic) collection at the Museu da Polícia do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro Police ...
Ulisses N. Rafael, Yvonne Maggie
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SORCERY AND ITS MENACE AMONG MUSLIMS: ISLAMIC DA'WAH IN PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
Jurnal Wahana Akademika, 2023 Yahaya Sulaiman, Muhammad Maga Sule
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Kapori: researching local responses to sorcery accusation–related violence in Papua New Guinea through Indigenous storytelling [PDF]
AlterNative, 2023 exaly +2 more sources
Tidsskrift for Islamforskning, 2022 This article describes the principles of sihr (sorcery) from an Islamic perspective, starting with discussion of how to become a sorcerer and how to perform sorcery with the help of satanic djinns and amulets.
Michael Marlow
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A plastic treatment of quackery and sorcery through mixed techniques in intaglio printing [PDF]
Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2022 Summary:God created Adam, peace be upon him, from clay, created Eve from him, made him a caliph on earth, taught him all the names, then ordered the angels to prostrate to him, and they worshiped him except Satan refrained from obeying the command of God,
Nageba elwafi
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