Sorcery and Warfare in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Sorcery and warfare in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
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Sorcery and warfare in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Schwoerer, T. (2017). Sorcery and warfare in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Oceania, 87(3), 317–336.
Tobias Schwoerer is an anthropologist and the author of Sorcery in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Tobias highlighted the relationship between warfare and sorcery practices among highlanders of Papua New Guinea. In the article, Tobias indicates that sorcery was Male dominated activity where it was used to cause death and violence to other communities in Oceania. In his article Tobias analyze changes that have happened in sorcery practices from pre-colonial periods to postcolonial Era. Majority living in Papua Guinea accuse sorcery as the main cause of slowed economic development and poor public service provision by their government. To...