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Policing in a relational state: the case of sorcery accusation-related violence in Papua New Guinea
Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 2021Sorcery accusation-related violence raises many profound policing challenges, especially in countries where police forces find themselves outnumbered and outgunned by mobs of perpetrators.
M. Forsyth
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Causality in structural vector autoregressions: Science or sorcery?
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021This paper offers a simple presentation of structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) for estimating causal effects in applied economics. We emphasize connections between SVARs and instrumental variables (IV), both of which aim to extract exogenous ...
Dalia Ghanem, Aaron Smith
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2021
The question of sorcery is less whether it is rational or “real” than how people live with the concept. The paper draws from the author’s mistakes in attempting to resolve a conflict over sorcery accusations among a group of siblings in Mayotte (Western Indian Ocean) in order to illuminate ethical dimensions of living with sorcery and also of studying ...
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The question of sorcery is less whether it is rational or “real” than how people live with the concept. The paper draws from the author’s mistakes in attempting to resolve a conflict over sorcery accusations among a group of siblings in Mayotte (Western Indian Ocean) in order to illuminate ethical dimensions of living with sorcery and also of studying ...
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Ten Preliminary Findings Concerning Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in Papua New Guinea
Social Science Research Network, 2019This discussion paper reports on a number of key emerging research findings from a multi-year collaborative research project into overcoming sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
M. Forsyth +5 more
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2018
I There are, it would appear, certain wholly unremarkable persons, with none of the characteristics that invite adventure, who yet once or twice in the course of their smooth lives undergo an experience so strange that the world catches its breath — and looks the...
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I There are, it would appear, certain wholly unremarkable persons, with none of the characteristics that invite adventure, who yet once or twice in the course of their smooth lives undergo an experience so strange that the world catches its breath — and looks the...
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Sorcery, Revenge, and Anti-Revenge
Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, 2019This article focuses on sorcery, revenge, and anti-revenge among the Qom people in Argentina. For them, death is the result of sorcery or a shamanic attack. When a relative dies, the family may decide to avenge him through practices performed on his body.
F. Tola
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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.
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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.
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British Journal of Criminology, 2018
This research is supported by the Australian Government in partnership with the Government of Papua New Guinea as part of the Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development program.
M. Forsyth
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This research is supported by the Australian Government in partnership with the Government of Papua New Guinea as part of the Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development program.
M. Forsyth
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