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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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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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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La Sorcellerie en Mélanésie : Élicitation de l’inacceptable [PDF]
, 2016 International audienceElicitation of Unacceptable. — Sorcery has remained an important issue in Melanesia countries, in particular in Papua New Guinea and in Vanuatu.
Dousset, Laurent
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Supernatural beliefs, aetiological models and help seeking behaviour in patients with schizophrenia
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2012 Background: Few studies have evaluated the supernatural beliefs of patients with schizophrenia. This study aimed to study the personal beliefs, aetiological models and help seeking behaviour of patients with schizophrenia using a self-rated questionnaire.
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Chimpanzees, sorcery and contestation in a protected area in Guinea-Bissau [PDF]
, 2017 In Cantanhez National Park in Guinea-Bissau the construction of meaning made upon 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 ...
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The Knowable and the Unknowable in Ethnographic Encounters: A Case of Sorcery, Rumor, and Gossip among Tuareg in Northern Niger [PDF]
, 2022 Susan J. Rasmussen
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The Bigman Metaphor for Entrepreneurship: A Library Tale with Morals on Alternatives for Further Research [PDF]
, 1990 Melanesian Bigmanship (a meritocratic, enacted career of political-economic leadership) is recounted as an anthropological metaphor for entrepreneurship. This “library tale” has two purposes.
Stewart, Alex
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Enquêter la peur au ventre. Retour réflexif d’une enquête de terrain sur la folie au Gabon
SourcesUsing data collected for my doctoral research in Gabon, and building upon social science research on witchcraft and madness, I set out to reflexively analyse my positionality as a researcher and the way in which fieldwork relations influenced the ...
Cordille-Verdia Babongui-Mba
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