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Chimpanzees, sorcery and contestation in a protected area in Guinea-Bissau
, 2017 In Cantanhez National Park in Guinea-Bissau the construction of meaning made after encounters with chimpanzees is associated with local social life. If a chimpanzee makes an unprovoked attack on a person, its actions are often understood as those of a ...
J. Sousa, C. Hill, A. Ainslie
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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017 Certain South African perceptions of sorcery acquire new resonance when considered in the context of present-day corporatised, managerially governed higher education. Concepts of witchcraft from elsewhere in Africa further illuminate this.
Felicity Wood
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Biblical principles as an answer to the African people�s questioning of witchcraft
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2012 Witchcraft is still an enormous and serious issue in African culture. The media, including the entertainment component (e.g. African Magic programmes on satellite television), portray witchcraft as an issue that needs to be addressed. Witchcraft has in a
David K. Semenya, Rantoa Letsosa
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Achille Ngoye et Jean-Roger Essomba : le renouveau du polar africain francophone
Itinéraires, 2019 In African literary history, whether in the colonial novel, the family romance, or the novel of solitary revolt, the African novel has generally been considered realistic.
Hervé Tchumkam
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Loving Sorcery (Hechiceria) in the Andes of the 18th Century
ReligionsMost of the Peruvian inquisitorial processes from the 17th and 18th centuries in the Americas addressed love spells, and not the crimes of heresy they were originally meant to adjudicate.
Alfredo Culleton
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International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2019 This paper develops the theory of the social contagion of violence by proposing a four-part analytical framework that focuses on: (1) contagious narratives and the accompanying behavioural script about the use of violence as a response to those ...
Miranda Forsyth, Philip Gibbs
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Programming: Sorcery or Science?
IEEE Software, 1984 Professional programming practice should be based on underlying mathematical theories and follow the traditions of better-established engineering disciplines. Success will come through improved education.
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 215-230, April 2026.Abstract The household book is a particular feature of the landscape of manuscript production post‐1475, and is particularly associated with women. Compiling manuscript household books in a post‐print landscape involved a specific kind of dialogue between the two material forms.
Carrie Griffin
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Spells and Sorcery in Medieval Spain and Their Reflection to "La Celestina"
Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017 In this article the revalation of magic, sorcery and witchcraft will be discussed broadly and its reflection to Antiquity, Medieval Europe also Spain in that era will be studied in terms of historical order. At last, in “La Celestina” which is one of the
Burcu TEKİN
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 159-166, March 2026.Abstract Towards the end of their Introduction, the editors of this special issue suggest that a principal challenge in ethnographic description is ‘how to measure the measures of others’. It is their own measure of persons, say, or of transactions, on which anthropologists frequently draw in adjudicating social phenomena, not least when characterizing
Marilyn Strathern
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