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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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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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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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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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Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, 2016 The paper on customary law, traditional wounding and death in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of Central Australia raises questions about the safety of using certain forms of tribal punishments outside a controlled context [1]. It also provides an opportunity to examine other indigenous beliefs around life and death, particularly ...
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Health Promotion International, 2020 Set in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, this study explores the relationship between cultural knowledge and beliefs concerning illness and health-seeking behaviour within the context of medical pluralism.
Lana M. Elliott, John Taylor
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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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Magische Alltagsvorstellungen und spätmittelalterliche Zaubereiprozesse in Tirol
Historia.scribere, 2015 Common Magical Concepts and Late-Medieval Sorcery Trials in Tyrol The beliefs of the people in the late Middle Ages went beyond the canonical doctrine of the Catholic Church, magic performances complemented the religion and its application has played a ...
Hester Margreiter
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Sorcery and Witchcraft: A Critical Challenge in Papua New Guinea
Religion and Social CommunicationIn the modern age of the twenty-first century, with rapid developments in technology and science, accusations of sorcery and witchcraft appear to be occurring with increasing and spreading regularity throughout Papua New Guinea (PNG), a country in the ...
Tuan Viet Cao
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THE PRESENCE OF TRADITION IN THE AFRICAN MODERNITY [PDF]
Studia Warmińskie, 2016 Based mainly on the author’s own experience and field research in Togo, the article outlines the way in which tradition is woven into modernity, as political and social discourse uses a worldview based on traditional religion.
Jacek Pawlik
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