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1 online resource (334 pages) : colour illustrations |
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Title from screen (viewed on 30/06/15). |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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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 Part 3 explore some positive ways forward in overcoming one of the most problematic aspects of sorcery and witchcraft beliefs and practices today, namely sorcery accusation-related violence. |
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The chapters in this part of the book highlight the diversity of witchcraft-and sorcery-related beliefs across Melanesia. It is clear that understanding the particular cultural context involved is fundamental to an understanding of the problems associated with the beliefs, as is argued by John Himugu (Chapter 5). He describes in some detail the beliefs of the Huli people in PNG and the way in which they have developed their own mechanisms to deal with the social issues they generate. As a result of this diversity, there are limits to the extent to which valid generalisations can be made in the context of sorcery- and witchcraft- related beliefs and practices. Further, accusations and counter-accusations are often embedded in particular local political landscapes, a point convincingly made by Siobhan McDonnell (Chapter 8) on the linkages between tensions over land and sorcery accusations in Vanuatu. She shows how land is a major source of social tension in rural areas in Vanuatu, and argues that solutions to nakaemas must recognise the social circumstances and relations that surround sorcery and that this must be built into any regulatory model. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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English. |
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Witchcraft -- Melanesia.
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Melanesia -- Social life and customs.
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Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.
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Melanesia -- Religion.
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Papua New Guinea -- Religion.
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Mélanésie -- Mœurs et coutumes.
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Mélanésie -- Religion.
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Melanesia.
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Social Science -- Sociology.
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Manners and customs
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Religion
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Witchcraft
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Melanesia
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Papua New Guinea https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxrW6PwDKMhdgFpg3XDbd
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Australian |
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Electronic books.
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Forsyth, Miranda, editor.
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Eves, Richard, editor.
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Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
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Print version: Talking it through : responses to sorcery and witchcraft beliefs and practices in Melanesia. Canberra, Australia : Australian National University Press, ©2015 x, 334 pages 9781925021561 |
| ISBN |
9781925021578 (electronic bk.) |
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1925021572 (electronic bk.) |
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1925021564 |
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9781925021561 |
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9781925021561 |
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10.26530/OAPEN_569113 doi |
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569113 |
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AU@ 000054968253 |
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GBVCP 1008664278 |
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