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Sorcery Act
The language of the Sorcery Act of 1971.
From the preamble:
"There is no reason why a person who uses or pretends or tries to use sorcery to do, or to try to do, evil things should not be punished just as if sorcery and the powers of sorcerers were real, since it is just as evil to do or to try to do evil things by sorcery as it would be to do ( Read more... ) -
And why not?
"...there follow a number of related implications for future health care delivery systems.
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Second, health administrators and trainers must explicitly accept sorcery as a cause of illness. The persistence of a belief in sorcery and spirit-induced illnesses is striking. Sorcery is recognized in the statutes in the 1971 Sorcery Act but, even ( Read more... ) -
Plesman vs. stilman
"The place man and place woman are drawn into crime through the obligations they owe to others or through sorcery and pay-back, where the cause of action is perceived to be separated from its effect (much in the same way that prisoners' dreams and sneezes are said to be coerced by the thoughts of kin). If those from the village or hamlet commit ( Read more... ) -
Boring
"You are boring me, was the heresy I wanted to shout into the faces of the squinting rable who were following Dorcas around. You bore me to tears. You are consigning me to a boring position. You are interesting only from the standpoint of someone interested in boring people. You are less than uninteresting. You are boring in the way you interact. I ( Read more... ) -
The usual form
"The message of the dream lecture was that there was something I had to avoid. It was a strain to formulate it. There as something I should beware, something that was not good enough ( Read more... ) -
Ethotic consensus about ethos
"The story of expatriate conviviality come what may has been both memorialized in and reinforced by the video The Spirit of Ramu (Harvest Moon Productions). Made by the wife of the BTL-employed financial comptroller in 1996, after the heydays of the expatriate community at RSL, it operated, we think, much like the "Court Circular" in creating and ( Read more... ) -
Unrequited Reciprocity
"My own internalization of these ideas [of unrequited reciprocity] took the form of a recurring dream during fieldwork, in which I discovered that most of my personal belongings were missing. The unusual aspect of the dream was the feeling of calm that accompanied this recognition, because my possessions no longer differentiated me from the other ( Read more... ) -
Roy Wagner on supergender and animality
"What is male in Australia, female in New Guinea, and frequently hangs by its toes? It is a human story of animal supergender in two parts, one that depends for its whole sense and significance on animality, specifically one that migrates between Australia and Papua New Guinea, the bat."
Wagner, Roy. Anthropology of the Subject : Holographic ( Read more... )
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