Ethnographic Sorcery

Econometrics as Sorcery

The paper deals with the problem of identifying the internal dependencies and similarities among a large number of random processes. Linear models are considered to describe the relations among the time series and the energy associated to the corresponding modeling error is the criterion adopted to quantify their similarities. Such an approach is interpreted in terms of graph theory suggesting ...

‘Most people still believe that kuru is caused by sorcery’

Community Liaison Officer. I am also the community leader of Waisa Village. In our kuru studies, I work closely with Jerome Whitfield and Michael Alpers. In the early 1960s, when I first saw Michael Alpers in Waisa, I was 7 years old. Michael has always been a good friend of our family. The kuru research work went ahead successfully. Later Michael became the Director of the Papua New Guinea Ins...

Sorcery: Overcoming deceptive votes in P2P content sharing systems

Deceptive voting behaviors of malicious users are known as the main reason of causing content pollution in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) content sharing systems. Due to the nature of P2P overlay network such as self-organization and anonymity, the existing methods on identifying deceptive votes are not effective, especially for collusive attackers. This paper presents Sorcery, a novel active challenge-res...

Ethnographic demography: the use of ethnographic texts by demographers

Reassembling Ethnographic Museum Collections

This volume addresses fundamental questions about the nature, value, and efficacy of museum collections in a postcolonial world and the agency of indigenous people in their production. The book’s primary focus lies with those objects that, by way of their specific histories, have been defined as “ethnographic”; however, the question of the contexts in which things are defined as “art” as oppose...