http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/what-to-do-about-witchcraft/563/
Here's an interesting story from The Conversation about killings of
alleged witches and sorcerers in Papua New Guinea. The story naively
assumes that sorcery doesn't exist and that people are just to dumb to
know that people die from disease. Thus the prescribed cure is to
educate people in western understandings of things and the problem will
surely go away. I do not discount the possibility of blaming others as a
coping mechanism for the death of loved ones, but it is sad to see
western cultural imperialism being imposed on another people because the
westerners can't conceive of the possibility of sorcery actually existing.
Morgan Leigh
PhD Candidate
School of Sociology & Social Work
University of Tasmania
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