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1972
When the gods are expelled from the cosmos, the world they have left becomes boring. In the seventeenth century, the ennui explored by Pascal was still the mood of a man who had lost his faith and must protect himself from the blackness of anxiety by divertissements; after the French Revolution, the ennui was recognized by Hegel as the syndrome of an ...
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When the gods are expelled from the cosmos, the world they have left becomes boring. In the seventeenth century, the ennui explored by Pascal was still the mood of a man who had lost his faith and must protect himself from the blackness of anxiety by divertissements; after the French Revolution, the ennui was recognized by Hegel as the syndrome of an ...
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Anthropological Quarterly, 2005
Of Sorcery and State Harry G. West, Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 336 pp. In the Shimakonde language of northern Mozambique, kupilikula means to overturn, undo, or invert. One would-"pilikula" the sorcery of an opponent, thereby doing harm to the intending perpetrator of harm ...
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Of Sorcery and State Harry G. West, Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 336 pp. In the Shimakonde language of northern Mozambique, kupilikula means to overturn, undo, or invert. One would-"pilikula" the sorcery of an opponent, thereby doing harm to the intending perpetrator of harm ...
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2020
From the second half of the seventeenth century Madagascar became the focus of attention for many European naturalists for its unique flora and fauna. The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars interrupted European investigation of the island’s natural history, but from 1815, following the end of hostilities, museums, botanical gardens, and ...
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From the second half of the seventeenth century Madagascar became the focus of attention for many European naturalists for its unique flora and fauna. The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars interrupted European investigation of the island’s natural history, but from 1815, following the end of hostilities, museums, botanical gardens, and ...
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Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in PNG Part 5: Incidents and Victims
, 2021M. Forsyth +4 more
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2015
Abstract This article is an in-depth study of the cosmology and practices of assault sorcerers. While it concentrates mostly on indigenous Amazonian societies, comparisons are drawn from other ethnographic areas of the world. It shows that assault sorcery is an integral part of a nexus of religious knowledge and power, in which ...
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Abstract This article is an in-depth study of the cosmology and practices of assault sorcerers. While it concentrates mostly on indigenous Amazonian societies, comparisons are drawn from other ethnographic areas of the world. It shows that assault sorcery is an integral part of a nexus of religious knowledge and power, in which ...
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