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

Miranda Forsyth

doi:10.22459/tit.05.2015.12

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

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Abstract

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'.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Talking it Through: Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia
Editors	Miranda Forsyth and Richard Eves
Place of Publication	Canberra, Australia
Publisher	ANU Press
Pages	213-239
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9781925021561
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22459/tit.05.2015.12
Publication status	Published - 2015

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A Pluralist Response to the Regulation of Sorcery and Witchcraft in Melanesia. / Forsyth, Miranda.
Talking it Through: Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia. ed. / Miranda Forsyth and Richard Eves. Vol. 1 1st. ed. Canberra, Australia: ANU Press, 2015. p. 213-239.

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