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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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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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, 2020 This article is a free rendering of a chapter of my book Encounter of Religions: Faith and no–Faith in a Global World (Wenn Religionen sich begegnen. Glauben und anders glauben in einer globalen Welt [Wien, Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2014], 41-53).
Thomas Mooren
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Mysticisme et mondialisation aux Antilles : le cas de la Guadeloupe
Études Caribéennes, 2013 This study shows how an authentic mysticism arose in Guadeloupe. The West Indies are made up of many ethnic groups. In Guadeloupe, the society has been constituted by two waves of migrations; so far this society has been pluri-ethnic and pluri-cultural ...
Dimitri A. Lasserre
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'The Land Will Eat You': Land and Sorcery in North Efate, Vanuatu
, 2020 In Vanuatu the word ‘sorcery’ is most closely associated with the use of blak majik (black magic) known as nakaemas in Bislama, although there is a diversity of practices consistent with the extreme linguistic and cultural diversity found across the ...
McDonnell, Siobhan
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, 2021 Includes bibliographical references and index.Copyright date is 2021.Examines and reconstructs the original indigenous logic behind sorcery, analyzing manifestations from the early Olmec to the ethnographic present.
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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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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, 2007 According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it. While conducting research among these Muedans, anthropologist Harry G.
West, Harry G.
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Where the Magician Lives: An Ontological Problem in the Anthropology of Magic
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study is to outline a theoretical framework in which the anthropologist can introduce a naturalistic approach, which will not be conflicted with scientific discourses, into his ethnographic work. First of all, I argue that the principles of magic can be understood as a part of social cognitive causal chains, based on
Keishi Okamoto
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