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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2011 Four women, two mestizas and two zambas were accused of superstition and witchcraft before the highest court of appeal of the Real Audiencia de Charcas in La Plata the year 1824, which means, some months before the formal birth of Bolivia as an ...
Paola A. Revilla Orías
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Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2022 The emergence of “shamanic tourism” in some Shipibo-Konibo villages and urban areas has led to a recrudescence of vernacular witchcraft practices, now integrated into the new sociological context of the commercialization of local vegetalist shamanism ...
Doriane Slaghenauffi
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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Sorciérologie et (de la) hantise : de Cathy à PJ
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2023 I have always considered Kate Bush my Hecate and PJ Harvey my Circea..., fantasized, that is. From one to the other, it is magicians and witches that I would like to focus on here, or rather their becoming, in a "research experiment" that takes these ...
Emma Viguier
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Book Review: A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism [PDF]
, 2005 A review of A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism by Elizabeth De ...
Coward, Harold
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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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The Anthropology of Magic and Sorcery in Tunisian society: An Ethnographic study
Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Social Sciences, 2023 This research is concerned with the study of the phenomenon of witchcraft and sorcery in Arab societies through a field study in Tunisian society, which included a sample of workers in the field of witchcraft and witchcraft.
Said Abdelli
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The problem of causality in assigning damage to acts of witchcraft and sorcery Analytical study in civil law [PDF]
الرافدین للحقوق, 2020 The phenomenon of witchcraft and sorcery began to spread widely in the society, and it began to make its negative effects on serious individuals causing damages to them not different from those damages to the person that result from money loss or missing
Mohammed Sulaiman Alahmed +1 more
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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