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IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2017 The Sorcery National Action Plan (SNAP) is an analytical policy document developed as an intervention strategy in response to increased accounts of sorcery and witchcraft-related violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Alex Agai Botu
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Classical German Philosophy as a theoretical source of modern religious studies [PDF]
Религия, церковь, общество, 2012 The author evaluates the contribution made by Classical German Philosophy to religious studies that became a separate discipline. The case of nature and origin of magic is examined.
Grigorenko Andrey Yur’evich,
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Reflecting on loss in Papua New Guinea [PDF]
, 2006 This article takes up the conundrum of conducting anthropological fieldwork with people who claim that they have 'lost their culture,' as is the case with Suau people in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea.
Albert Steve +38 more
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Strengthening the voices of human rights defenders in the media
Pacific Journalism Review, 2020 Civil society and human rights defenders in Papua New Guinea have played an important role in bringing about legislative changes with regard to domestic and sorcery accusation related violence in recent years.
Verena Thomas, Jackie Kauli
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Multianalytical Study of Amuletic and Talismanic Islamic-African Paper Manuscripts in the Slovene Ethnographic Museum. [PDF]
ChempluschemThe image illustrates a multi‐technique analysis of Islamic‐African manuscripts from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights methods like microscopy, hyperspectral imaging, FTIR, LIF, Raman, LIBS, and furnish analysis used to study paper fibers, inks, and dyes—revealing a blend of local and trade materials and a rich fusion of Qur’anic and
Elnaggar A +12 more
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The shaman of shamans: Ethnography of sorcery between Kalapalo on Xingu Indigenous Park
Mundo Amazónico, 2017 Resulting of fieldwork among the Kalapalo Indians, this paper is grounded on an ethnography concerning sorcery and shamanism. It intends to describe and analyse an event that took place in 2006, when a Kalapalo promoted a syncretism between shamanic and ...
João Veridiano Franco Neto
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Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java [PDF]
, 2012 'Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java' is an ethnographic monograph that examines the ways in which the peoples of a peri-urban locality in East Java, Indonesia conceive of the person, by looking at how their ...
Retsikas, Kostas
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Traditional Methods of Protecting the Infant and Child Illness/Disease Among the Wazigua at Mvomero Ward, Morogoro, Region, Tanzania [PDF]
, 2013 Even though child and infant protection against health problems using various methods is as old as mankind, there is limited literature on traditional methods used to protect infant and child in Tanzania.
Kayombo , E.J.
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The Chicago Maqlû Fragment (A 7876) [PDF]
, 2009 The fragment A 7876 (Oriental Institute, Chicago) occupies a special position among the cuneiform sources of the ritualMaqlû. The six-column tablet, inscribed in the Neo-Assyrian script of the 8th and 7th centuries BC, originally contained the complete ...
Abusch, Tzvi, Schwemer, Daniel
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Forms of Violence and Discrimination against Women in Papua New Guinea [PDF]
Pacific Geographies, 2018 Gender-based violence (GBV) is pervasive and enduring in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Women and girls in this country are to a large extent exposed to sexual assault, rape and domestic violence in urban and rural areas.
Garbe, Mats, Struck-Garbe, Marion
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