Witchcraft and sorcery are a hidden unknown work of society that is source problems harm to individuals in has dangerous role creating more belief among people. This problem an old renewed constantly over time spread from one era another. Currently, it living issue our the absence any legal text Iraqi Civil Code guidelines made intense society. We therefore make good academic effort uncover civ...

Over the last years, digital preservation has become a particularly active research area. While several initiatives are dealing with the preservation of standard document formats, the challenges of preserving multimedia objects and pieces of electronic art are still to be tackled. This paper presents the findings of a pilot project for preserving born-digital interactive multimedia art. We desc...

Abstract In twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro, police and local authorities addressed “black magic practices” through surveillance regulation that were related to new cartographic discursive imaginaries of urban reform segregation. Police raids a common occurrence, journalists who wrote about sorcerers sorcery participated in mapping Janeiro’s imaginaries. This article examines set public health...

1. 1962 During my first employment as a Medical Officer in the Public Health Service of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, I was, after an induction period in Goroka, offered a posting to Okapa for several months. I was accompanied by my wife Theresa and our 18-month-old son. The pilot who flew us there in a Cessna seemed to feel pity for the young family he had to carry to ‘such a remote p...

The issue of whether and how ethnomedical practitioners can be incorporated into existing biomedical systems in developing countries continues to be debated. Although a number of reasons have been advanced as to the barriers to incorporation, none of these take into account the views of nurses on incorporating ethnomedical practitioners into the biomedical system. Data from Botswana, where the ...

This article examines the feminization of migration at Malaysian-Thai frontier through lens cross-border marriages between Malaysian men and Thai women (predominantly Malay ethnicity). Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted in city Kota Bharu, Kelantan, it explores process as a hopeful endeavor seeking “fortune” several senses word: employment economic prospects (Mal. rezeki), oppo...