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The Trials Of Mrs K
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Author : Adam Ashforth
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-07-02
The Trials Of Mrs K written by Adam Ashforth and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-02 with Social Science categories.
In March 2009, in a small town in Malawi, a nurse at the local hospital was accused of teaching witchcraft to children. Amid swirling rumors, “Mrs. K.” tried to defend her reputation, but the community nevertheless grew increasingly hostile. The legal, social, and psychological trials that she endured in the struggle to clear her name left her life in shambles, and she died a few years later. In The Trials of Mrs. K., Adam Ashforth studies this and similar stories of witchcraft that continue to circulate in Malawi. At the heart of the book is Ashforth’s desire to understand how claims to truth, the pursuit of justice, and demands for security work in contemporary Africa, where stories of witchcraft can be terrifying. Guiding us through the history of legal customs and their interactions with the court of public opinion, Ashforth asks challenging questions about responsibility, occult forces, and the imperfect but vital mechanisms of law. A beautifully written and provocative book, The Trials of Mrs. K. will be an essential text for understanding what justice means in a fragile and dangerous world.
Prenatal Testing For Late Onset Neurogenetic Diseases
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Author : G Evers-Kiebooms
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2003-12-16
Prenatal Testing For Late Onset Neurogenetic Diseases written by G Evers-Kiebooms and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-16 with Medical categories.
This book addresses the biological, moral and legal issues which arising prenatal testing of late onset neurogenetic disease. The contributors focus specifically on Huntington's Disease, which is used as a model for other late onset neurogenetic diseases. The ethical and legal aspects of prenatal testing and preimplantation genetic diagnosis are discussed with reference to case histories. This volume will provide valuable insights for all those involved in dealing with these challenging issues.
Godey S Lady S Book And Ladies American Magazine
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language : en
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Release Date : 1871
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Bath A Satirical Novel
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Author : Thomas Brown (the elder, pseud.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1818
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Bath
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Author : Thomas Brown (the elder, pseud.)
language : en
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Release Date : 1818
Bath written by Thomas Brown (the elder, pseud.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1818 with Bath (England) categories.
Bath A Satirical Novel Second Edition
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Author : Thomas BROWN (the Elder, pseud.)
language : en
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Release Date : 1818
Bath A Satirical Novel Second Edition written by Thomas BROWN (the Elder, pseud.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1818 with categories.
Godey S Lady S Book
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Author : Louis Antoine Godey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
Godey S Lady S Book written by Louis Antoine Godey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Costume categories.
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Interpreting Child Sacrifice Narratives
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Author : Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-03-23
Interpreting Child Sacrifice Narratives written by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-23 with Religion categories.
Examining the theme of child sacrifice as a psychological challenge, this book applies a unique approach to religious ideas by looking at beliefs and practices that are considered deviant, but also make up part of mainstream religious discourse in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Ancient religious mythology, which survives through living traditions and transmitted narratives, rituals, and writings, is filled with violent stories, often involving the targeting of children as ritual victims. Christianity offers Abraham's sacrifice and assures us that the “only begotten son” has died, and then been resurrected. This version of the sacrifice myth has dominated the West. It is celebrated in an act of fantasy cannibalism, in which the believers share the divine son's flesh and blood. This book makes the connection between Satanism stories in the 1980s, the Blood Libel in Europe, The Eucharist, and Eastern Mediterranean narratives of child sacrifice.
Women S Travel Writings In India 1777 1854
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Author : Carl Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-30
Women S Travel Writings In India 1777 1854 written by Carl Thompson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The ‘memsahibs’ of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV, and film. In recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet British women also visited and resided in India in this earlier period, witnessing first-hand the tumultuous, expansionist decades in which the East India Company established British control over the subcontinent. Some of these travellers produced highly regarded accounts of their experiences, thereby inaugurating a rich tradition of women’s travel writing about India. In the process, they not only reported events and developments in the subcontinent; they also contributed to them, helping to shape opinion and policy on issues such as colonial rule, religion, and social reform. This new set in the Chawton House Library Women’s Travel Writing series assembles seven of these accounts, six by British authors (Jemima Kindersley, Maria Graham, Eliza Fay, Ann Deane, Julia Maitland and Mary Sherwood) and one by an American (Harriet Newell). Their narratives – here reproduced for the first time in reset scholarly editions – were published between 1777 and 1854, and recount journeys undertaken in India, or periods of residence there, between the 1760s and the 1830s. Collectively they showcase the range of women’s interests and activities in India, and also the variety of narrative forms, voices and personae available to them as travel writers. Some stand squarely in the tradition of Enlightenment ethnography; others show the growing influence of Evangelical beliefs. But all disrupt any lingering stereotypes about women’s passivity, reticence, and lack of public agency in this period, when colonial women were not yet as sequestered and debarred from cross-cultural contact as they would later be during the Raj. Their narratives are consequently a useful resource to students and researchers across multiple fields and disciplines, including women’s writing, travel writing, colonial and postcolonial studies, the history of women’s educational and missionary work, and Romantic-era and nineteenth-century literature.
An Epidemic Of Uncertainty
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Author : Jenny Trinitapoli
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023
An Epidemic Of Uncertainty written by Jenny Trinitapoli and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Social Science categories.
"In An Epidemic of Uncertainty, Jenny Trinitapoli advances a new model for studying social life by emphasizing something that social scientists routinely omit from their theories, models, and measures--what people know they don't know. The book takes Malawi's ongoing AIDS epidemic as its entry point for understanding the stakes of uncertainty. After a four-decades-long battle, new infections are down and AIDS-related mortality has declined. But in the wake of pandemic AIDS, an epidemic of uncertainty persists; at any given point in time, half the population doesn't know their HIV status. The author argues that AIDS-related uncertainty is measurable, pervasive, and impervious to biomedical solutions. The consequences of uncertainty are pertinent to multiple domains of life including relationship stability, fertility, health, and well-being. Even as HIV is transformed from a progressive, fatal infection to a chronic and manageable condition, the accompanying epidemic of uncertainty remains central to understanding social life in this part of the world. This book is based on a ground-breaking longitudinal study that documents how the lives of young adults in Balaka, Malawi, unfold over a ten-year period. Trinitapoli also makes three general contributions: first, a demography of uncertainty and a set of theoretical and empirical tools for integrating what people know they don't know into social-scientific models of human behavior; second, a decade-long longitudinal study articulating what demographic approaches have to offer the social sciences; and third, an expansive attitude toward the empirical, which brings longitudinal survey data to life by incorporating accounts of uncertainty and its resolution through ethnography designed to capture population chatter and gossip in Balaka"--