A Pluralist Response to the Regulation of Sorcery and Witchcraft in Melanesia

Forsyth, Miranda

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A Pluralist Response to the Regulation of Sorcery and Witchcraft in Melanesia

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2015

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Forsyth, Miranda

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ANU Press

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This chapter focuses on the dimension of sorcery and witchcraft defined by Mary Patterson as 'the belief, and those practices associated with the belief, than one human being is capable of harming another by magical or supernatural means'.

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Talking it Through. Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia

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