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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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Mediation in Matters Involving Sorcery in PNG Villages and Remote Australian Indigenous Communities
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social DemocracyThe article discusses the application of mediation to conflict involving sorcery and sorcery-related violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG) villages and remote Australian Indigenous communities.
Craig Jones, Michael S Wagambie
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Cognitive Status in People With Epilepsy in the Republic of Guinea: A Prospective, Case-Control Study. [PDF]
Ann Clin Transl NeurolABSTRACT Objective People with epilepsy (PWE) may experience cognitive deficits but fail to undergo formal evaluation. This study compares cognitive status between PWE and healthy controls in the West African Republic of Guinea. Methods A cross‐sectional, case–control study was conducted in sequential recruitment phases (July 2024–July 2025) at Ignace ...
Mastick ML +14 more
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The Regulation of Witchcraft and Sorcery Practices and Beliefs
Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2016 This article reviews and analyzes the growing bodies of literature on the regulation of sorcery and witchcraft beliefs and practices. The most visible problems relating to these beliefs and practices are the violent exorcisms, banishment, torture, and ...
Miranda Forsyth
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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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AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2023 This article explores kapori, an Indigenous form of storytelling to investigate and report experiences, motivations, responses, and challenges of sorcery accusation–related violence (SARV) by the Yuri people, a tribal group from the Papua New Guinea ...
B. Witne +3 more
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SORCERY AND ITS MENACE AMONG MUSLIMS: ISLAMIC DA'WAH IN PERSPECTIVE
Wahana Akademika Jurnal Studi Islam dan Sosial, 2023 This paper is a contribution and a piece of Da'wah towards enlightening Muslims on the menace of sorcery and sorcerers. The work has highlighted some of the major reasons why some Muslims with weak Iman seek the help of sorcerers for worldly things ...
Yahaya Sulaiman, Muhammad Maga Sule
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Secretory Sorcery: Paneth Cell Control of Intestinal Repair and Homeostasis
Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2021 Paneth cells are professional secretory cells that, classically, play a role in the innate immune system by secreting antimicrobial factors into the lumen to control enteric bacteria.
Paul L. Cray, B. Sheahan, C. Dekaney
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Graun Em Pulap Long Pipia: Rubbish, Sorcery, and Spiritual Healing, Papua New Guinea
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 Bapra Simi, an Ambonwari spiritual healer living in the border town of Vanimo in Papua New Guinea comments that the “Earth is full of rubbish” and associates this material overflow with the possible causes and consequences of sorcery.
D. Vávrová
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Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, 2022 This article explores issues of knowledge production, its limits, and uncertainty and suspicion in ethnographic field research through the lens of what anthropologists conventionally call “sorcery” beliefs and practices involving a love target, its ...
S. Rasmussen
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