Beliefs, misconceptions, and practices related to epilepsy among adults in Sudan: A large-scale cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Epilepsia OpenAbstract Objective This study explored the most prevalent misconceptions about epilepsy among Sudanese individuals, focusing on knowledge, attitude, and practices in Sudan. Methods A community‐based, cross‐sectional study was conducted in the safe areas in Sudan due to the war from October 15 to November 30, 2024.
Ahmed MBM +11 more
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احادیث سحر کا مسئلہ عصمت انبیاءکے تناظر میں تحقیقی جائزہ
الضحی, 2021 The existence of the effects of magic is proved by the Holy Qur'an, it can not be denied, but the question arises whether the effects of magic also affect the Prophets? It is narrated in many Ahadith the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was effected by evil
Shafique Rahman +2 more
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Facing Scarcity in a Land Grab Context in Cameroon
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2021 This paper undertakes a critical exploration of the mechanisms via which communities cope with scarcity resulting from land grabs. It explores two ranges of practices – residential multilocality and sorcery – through the lens of resilience.
Hugues Morell Meliki
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When Rituals Fail: Rationalization, Bayesianism, and Predictive Processing. [PDF]
Evol AnthropolABSTRACT Why do rituals persist in human societies despite their frequent and observable failures to produce intended outcomes? This paper advances a two‐part argument to explain this resilience. First, at the individual level, I argue that belief in ritual efficacy is maintained through Bayesian‐rational processes, where the invocation of auxiliary ...
Hong Z.
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Bilum and Noken: String bags and sorcery in New Guinea
Kulturní Studia, 2023 This paper follows up the year 1871; a milestone of hardening anthropology as scientific approach. Tylor has published Primitive Culture; Morgan was signed under the title Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, Miklouho-Maclay landed ...
Martin Soukup
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Exchanges, 2020 This article will show the importance of cannibalism in the description of the sabbath among the Basques, in the Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et démons, written by Pierre De Lancre.
Matteo Leta
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Responding to the burden of dementia in Africa: Does cultural myth and perception of dementia impact clinical professionals' attitude, knowledge and experiences of dementia? Finding from qualitative interviews of newly migrated Nigerian clinical professionals in the UK [PDF]
Alzheimers DementAbstract Background The burden of dementia in Africa is increasing due to a rapidly growing ageing population, a broken social welfare system, and a lack of awareness about the condition, which is often influenced by cultural and religious beliefs. In many African languages and cultures, there is no specific word for dementia.
Nwofe E.
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Cхід, 2021 The article deals with legends about “sorcerous” knowledge and its possessors, which are connected with a “legendary” mode of alchemy phenomenon existence, especially on the Eastern borders of Late Medieval and Early Modern Western alchemy spread area ...
Kostiantyn Rodyhin, Mykhailo Rodyhin
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Sorcery and the Criminal Law in Vanuatu [PDF]
, 2006 This paper examines the problems of incorporating norms of customary law into the substantive criminal laws of a Melanesian state system. It focuses on the particular crime of sorcery in Vanuatu.
Forsyth, Miranda
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Book Review: Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self-Knowledge [PDF]
, 2005 A review of Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self-Knowledge by Don Handelman and David ...
Amaladass, Anand
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