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Talking it through : responses to sorcery and witchcraft beliefs and practices in Melanesia /
The book is structured into three parts. The chapters in Part 1 discuss the social, economic and cultural dimensions to the belief in witchcraft and sorcery. Part 2 contains a number of chapters that deal with the legal dimensions to the belief in witchcraft and sorcery. Finally, the chapters in Par...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Canberra, ACT :
ANU Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Foreword: Sorcery- and Witchcraft-Related Killings in Papua New Guinea; The Problems and Victims of Sorcery and Witchcraft Practices and Beliefs in Melanesia: An Introduction; 1. The Spread of Sorcery Killing and its Social Implications; 2. Sorcery, Christianity and the Decline of Medical Services; 3. Witchcraft, Sorcery, Violence: Matrilineal and Decolonial Reflections; 4. Sorcery and Witchcraft as a Negative Force on Economic and Social Development in Solomon Islands; 5. Huli Customary Beliefs and Tribal Laws about Witches and Witch Spirits.
- 6. Talking Sanguma: The Social Process of Discernment of Evil in Two Sepik Societies7. The Haus Man Cleansing at Nahu Rawa; 8. 'The Land Will Eat You': Land and Sorcery in North Efate, Vanuatu; 9. Sorcery, Poison and Politics: Strategies of Self-Positioning in South Malekula, Vanuatu; 10. The Courts, the Churches, the Witches and their Killers; 11. The Western Legal Response to Sorcery in Colonial Papua New Guinea; 12. A Pluralist Response to the Regulation of Sorcery and Witchcraft in Melanesia.
- 13. Sorcery- and Witchcraft-Related Killings in Papua New Guinea: The Criminal Justice System Response14. Sorcery Violence in Bougainville Through the Lens of Human Rights Law: A Critical View; 15. The Belief in Sorcery in Solomon Islands; 16. Kumo Koimbo: Accounts and Responses to Witchcraft in Gor, Simbu Province; 17. Practical Church Interventions on Sorcery and Witchcraft Violence in the Papua New Guinea Highlands; Author Biographies.