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Oops, obviously it is The Global Mail not The Conversation... On 23/02/2013 11:13 AM, Morgan Leigh wrote: > 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 >