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A New Witch-Hunt: LGBTQIA+ State Persecution by Brazil’s Christian Far-Right
This paper posits that the contemporary Brazilian far-right Christian narrative casts the LGBTQIA+ community in a role akin to that of witches in...
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Witch Hunts in India: The Nexus with Forms of Exclusion
This chapter deals with witch hunts, mainly of women, as extreme exclusion. Based on 115 case studies in five states of India, we show the various...
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Building Internal Coherence
This chapter explains the principle of internal coherence within an idea system. It presents how witch accusations in early modern Europe acquired a...
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Building External Coherence
This chapter explains the principle of external coherence within an idea system. It presents how witch accusations in early modern Europe acquired a...
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Gendered Demonology: Women as Witches
According to the Oxford dictionary of English the word ‘witch’ has a range of meanings: A woman thought to have evil magic powers, popularly depicted...
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On Development: Practice and Ethics
Three arguments are in vogue with respect to the issue of development, which is described today as the main mantra of change, in the sense that if...
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Internet Activism and the Populist Agenda
Populism as a concept has undergone transitions, and scholars have interpreted it in various ways. It has been perceived as an ideology, a political...
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Humans and Vultures: Sociocultural and Conservation Perspective in Northern India
Vultures are at-risk birds whose survival is linked with the communities with which they co-exist. Ecocultural services rendered by vultures earn...
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Tribal Health and Sustainable Development: Traditional Knowledge Practice and Medicinal Plant
Sustainable livelihood ensures proper human development providing with the basic necessities of everyday life. India is a country of multi-ethnic...
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The cultural dimension of environment: Ethnoscientific study on Santhal community in eastern India
This study explores the Santhal community to enhance the understanding of the human-nature relationship that fully captures distinct intricacies of...
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An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past
This paper provides a method- and theory-focused assessment of religious behavior based on cross-cultural research that provides an empirically...
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Feminist Movements in India Toward Social Justice
The saga of the India’s Women movement is as old as the European women’s campaign for the emancipation of their lot. The sociopolitical involvements...
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Chapter Eight: Healer or King
This chapter explains the tensor of kum which features centrally in the author’s anthropological work on chiefdoms in eastern and central Africa that...
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Ritual Closure: Rites De Passage and Apotropaic Magic in an Animate World
Magic and witchcraft, classic topics in the anthropology of religion, involve everyday things such as ashes, ceramics, minerals, shell, and...
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Lobos Sucios: Nazis, Meigas and Mouros in the Galician Wolfram Mines During WWII
Galician director Simón Casal’s first feature-length film, Lobos sucios [Dirty Wolves] (2016), a WWII drama set in Galicia, recovers important...
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Refuge from the Bovine?
In this chapter, I discuss the shadow emigration pathways that Indians are exploiting to leave the country to escape from the political targeting of...
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Philosophy and History of Environmental Education
In the first chapter, we discussed the definitionDefinition of environmental educationEducation. In Chap. 2...
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Introduction: The Reality of Social Exclusion and Policy of Inclusion
Social exclusion continues to surface in development and public policy debates all over the globe. The concept of social exclusion is used to denote...
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Padlocks as Supernatural Objects in the African Diaspora
Padlocks are often recovered archaeologically from enslaved African contexts in the Western Hemisphere, and prior research has suggested mundane...
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Conclusions: Transrational Hope
This chapter concludes by furthering an understanding of the creative value of transrationality, and through examining the politics of self and its...