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La brujería como pecado en el protestantismo mexicano
Alteridades, 2013 Witchcraftasa sinin Mexican ProtestantisM. The doom of what Protestantism in Mexico calls witchcraft is studied. The paper examines how the opposition to magical practices is expressed in biblical texts and, afterwards, the ...
CARLOS GARMA
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The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyzes how the Leningrad Affair, one of the most poorly understood of Joseph Stalin’s purges, was weaponized by Nikita Khrushchev and his comrades‐in‐arms in order to consolidate power during the 1950s and early 1960s. An exposé of how Khrushchev accused four different people of being responsible for the purge over the span of ...
David Brandenberger
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF WITCHCRAFT: THE BURMESE CASE by MELFORD E. SPIRO, Chicago, U.S.A. Presented at the Conference on Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific held at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, from March 28 to April I, I966. Typescript, 23 pp [PDF]
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Sociologies, 2014 The critique of ethnographic objectification which opens Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage should not be confused with the use that the post-modern trend made of it.
Gildas Salmon
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract In this paper, we explore what the experiences of some children and families in their neighbourhoods during the first UK COVID‐19 lockdown can tell us about the value and importance of neighbourhood spaces, relations and play in the wider contexts of neoliberalism, austerity and the mooted polycrisis. We use the work of Donald Winnicott,
Alison Stenning, Wendy Russell
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