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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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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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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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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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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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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 its Menace Among Muslims, Islamic Da'wah in Perspective [PDF]
, 2023 This paper is a contribution and a piece of Da'wah towards enlightening Muslims on the menace of sorcery and sorcerers. The work has highlighted some of the major reasons why some Muslims with weak Iman seek the help of sorcerers for worldly things ...
Sulaiman, Yahaya, Maga Sule, Muhammad
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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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Sorcery, Christianity and the Decline of Medical Services
, 2015 In Papua New Guinea, witchcraft and sorcery accusations appear to be proliferating and, in many cases, leading to horrific violence, torture and murder of those thought to be sorcerers.
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Religions, 2019 In 1638 Caterina di Francesco, from the town of Siena (Tuscany), was accused by the Roman Inquisition of invoking the devil through a spell called “the white angel spell„ or “the spell of the carafe„ (incantesimo della caraffa ...
Debora Moretti
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