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Vovós feiticeiras: algumas reflexões sobre tristes relatos de idosas moçambicanas

Kairós Gerontologia, 2012
: Particular attention is paid to the accusations of witchcraft, in which the Traditional Doctor´s Association of Mozambique (AMETRAMO) and traditional healers play two roles: one as the accuser and instigator of violence, and the other as the target of ...
Mercedes Sayagues, Salane Muchanga, Terezinha da Silva   +2 more
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Resolving Taxonomic Boundaries in the New Zealand Senecio matatini Complex (Senecioneae, Asteraceae): Evidence from Genotyping by Sequencing of Limestone‐Associated Forms

New Zealand Journal of Botany, Volume 64, Issue 3, September 2026.
The Senecio matatini complex in New Zealand has a convoluted taxonomic and nomenclatural history that has not been fully resolved. This is largely due to the incomplete sampling of morphologically diverse but highly threatened limestone populations in the eastern South Island in previous genetic studies.
Samiksha Patel, Robb W. Eastman‐Densem, Peter B. Heenan, Pieter B. Pelser   +3 more
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Plastic Inputs to Lake Rotorua: An Initial Assessment of Stormwater Stream Plastic Loads and Capture Devices

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2026.
Plastics are a known but inconsistently researched challenge to Aotearoa New Zealand's inland freshwater systems. Understanding plastic origins, movement, and removal options for individual water bodies can enhance management efforts. This exploratory study quantified meso‐ and macroplastics entering Lake Rotorua through stormwater streams and assessed
Aria Kerebs, Margaret Armstrong, Deniz Özkundakci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pouvoir des mots, effet des sorts : quelques réflexions sur l’entrée en action sorcellaire

Sociologies, 2014
The mode of action of witchcraft, so well described by the ethnologist Jeanne Favret-Saada, is based upon the power of enunciation and its performative efficiency.
Laurence Kaufmann
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Subjective Perceptions and Conceptualisations of Ageing and Disability in Ghana: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed‐Methods Study

Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2026.
This mixed‐methods study demonstrates that subjective perceptions of ageing strongly influence broader conceptualisations of ageing and disability in Ghana. The findings highlight the importance of culturally informed approaches to promoting healthy ageing and reducing misconceptions about disability in later life.
Doris Akosua Tay, Mumuni Abu, Fidelia Dake, Delali Margaret Badasu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Le débat juridique et religieux sur la sorcellerie en Libye

L’Année du Maghreb
This article examines the criminalization of witchcraft in Libya, an act prohibited by Islamic law but long unregulated specifically by Libyan legislation. Until recently, witchcraft was treated as a fraud offense under Article 461 of the 1954 Penal Code.
Mazek Ayoub
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 265-286, September 2026.
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
wiley   +1 more source

‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 287-308, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

De la critique de l’objectivité à la cartographie des positions impossibles. Relire Jeanne Favret-Saada après Désorceler

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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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 595-606, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
wiley   +1 more source