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Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
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Sorcery and Witchcraft: A Critical Challenge in Papua New Guinea [PDF]
In the modern age of the twenty-first century, with rapid developments in technology and science, accusations of sorcery and witchcraft appear to be occurring with increasing and spreading regularity throughout Papua New Guinea (PNG), a country in the ...
Tuan Viet Cao
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Language and Witchcraft as a Trade: Insights from, Machakos County, Kenya
Revista Internacional de Organizaciones, 2019 Witchcraft is defined as the use of magical powers for healing, seeing into the future, causing harm or for religion. The belief in the powers of witchcraft is widespread in Africa.
Gatitu Kiguru +3 more
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The following article seeks to explore and analyze the use of lay and traditional medicines among Latin migrants in Spain, and the way in which these forms of treatment are accompanied by identity discourses and collective representations.
Muriel Lamarque
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Economic Origins of Witch Hunting
Studies in Business and Economics, 2018 A number of events taking place in the twenty-first century such as mass arrests of members of the Iran President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad's executive office accused of witchcraft make one doubt that witch hunt trials remained in the far Middle Ages.
Shmakov Aleksandr, Petrov Sergey
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Diet and leishmaniasis in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In Ecuador's Amazon, Indigenous communities affected by leishmaniasis often modify their diets as part of their health‐seeking practices. Drawing on qualitative research with sixty‐eight participants from seven Indigenous groups, this study explores how and why patients’ diets shift in pursuit of healing from leishmaniasis.
Veronica Cristina Vargas Roman
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Violence against Children Accused of Witchcraft in Nigeria and its Impact on Their Wellbeing :
African Theological Journal for Church and SocietyWitchcraft accusations have been on the rise across various regions of Nigeria. Unfortunately, those often accused are not just the adults, but also children.
Felicia Priest, Victor Chukwuma
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Atalaya, 2016 This article offers a first approach to Classical literature as one of the strata underlying the development of European witchcraft. This is done from the point of view of how references made to these women in some treaties from the 15th to 17th ...
Eva Lara Alberola
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Time, place, person: Field epidemiology as a political practice
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Five years after the end of the Ebola epidemic, a district in Sierra Leone received a measles alert. This article tells the story of the epidemic that followed and the response that was mounted in the context of the new global epidemic preparedness and biosecurity paradigms that govern the management of health emergencies.
Luisa Enria
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