They can occur "in the context of virtually any character structure," even if it ..... it did happen, and apparently both physical and psychological means were used. ... of a complex interaction between mind, body, and social environment. ... Accusations of malefic witchcraft are often naïve or cynical attempts to ...
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it, in order to establish a social environment conducive to mutual help and solidarity. .... only did so after she had been imprisoned.17 Her accusations just ...... what type of issues were likely to have been considered important. ..... disagreements often occur when the introduction of new resources ...
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Witchcraft accusations, way of social control ... R.M.Kesing writing on the force of social control through witchcraft says that, a "witchcraft accusations, which may in some societies assign responsibility for every death that occurs, give a splendid means to get rid of those who cheat deviate, or succeed too...
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FULLER COMMENTARY Simple Sorcery is that type which is unorganized, ... It also is often times incorporated and co- exists with the New Age movement with modern concerns for the environment, ... Most occurrences of witchcraft accusations occur during periods of time of increased social, political, or religious tension and crisis.
www.people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/witches.html
FULLER COMMENTARY Simple Sorcery is that type which is unorganized, ... It also is often times incorporated and co- exists with the New Age movement with modern concerns for the environment, ... Most occurrences of witchcraft accusations occur during periods of time of increased social, political, or religious tension and crisis.
www.people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/witches.dos
‘welcome home’ attitude than the Zuni. The rumors, gossip, ridicule, and accusations of witchcraft used by the Zuni were not employed by the Navaho. ... The Aginskys conclude that their observations in Pomo society reveal that "there is present in every population the possibility of more than one type of social organization,
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Matt Latimer, a former speechwriter for Bush and author of Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor says  that some in the White House  discouraged the medal being given to Rowling on the grounds that her books “encouraged witchcraft.”;
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Culture both affects and is affected by events and the environment (social, political and geographic). It resides in and is reproduced by individuals, and is the means through which they define their society. ... Each resultant type of culture will be legitimated upon a different logical base. (Douglas, 1992a,p.136) ;
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Wim van Binsbergen on ethnicity, identity and politics in Africa ... in other words, the pattern was not in continuity with modes of participation and legitimation which Africans from a village background would spontaneously apply in their immediate face-to-face social environment.
www.shikanda.net/ethnicity/democrac.htm
While this is all that the "law" technically requires--and there are many legal cases supporting this presumption--the reality of today's social and technological environment makes the application of such law and prior precedent inapplicable in many developing trends.
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