Talking it through : responses to sorcery and witchcraft beliefs and practices in Melanesia

Talking it through responses to sorcery and witchcraft beliefs and practices in Melanesia

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Sorcery and witchcraft practices and beliefs are pervasive across Melanesia. They are in part created by, and give rise to, a wide variety of poor social and developmental outcomes. These include uneven economic development, low public health, lack of social cohesion, crime, fear and insecurity. A f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Forsyth, Miranda (auth), Forsyth, Miranda, editor (editor), Eves, Richard, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra, Australia : ANU Press 2015
[2015].
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Witchcraft > Melanesia.
Witchcraft > Papua New Guinea.
Melanesia > Social life and customs.
Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs.
development
witchcraft
melanesia
interventions
sorcery
Maleficium (sorcery)
Papua New Guinea
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423587606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • 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 Societies
  • 7. 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 Response
  • 14. 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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