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- Cover page
- Title page
- Imprint and copyright information
- Foreword: Sorcery- and Witchcraft-Related Killings in Papua New Guinea
- The Problems and Victims of Sorcery and Witchcraft Practices and Beliefs in Melanesia: An Introduction
- Part 1: Social, Economic and Cultural Dimensions to the Belief in Witchcraft and Sorcery
- 1. The Spread of Sorcery Killing and its Social Implications
- 2. Sorcery, Christianity and the Decline of Medical Services
- 3. Witchcraft, Sorcery, Violence: Matrilineal and Decolonial Reflections
- 4. Sorcery and Witchcraft as a Negative Force on Economic and Social Development in Solomon Islands
- 5. Huli Customary Beliefs and Tribal Laws about Witches and Witch Spirits
- 6. Talking Sanguma: The Social Process of Discernment of Evil in Two Sepik Societies
- 7. The Haus Man Cleansing at Nahu Rawa
- 8. ‘The Land Will Eat You’: Land and Sorcery in North Efate, Vanuatu
- 9. Sorcery, Poison and Politics: Strategies of Self-Positioning in South Malekula, Vanuatu
- Part 2: Legal Dimensions to the Belief in Witchcraft and Sorcery
- 10. The Courts, the Churches, the Witches and their Killers
- 11. The Western Legal Response to Sorcery in Colonial Papua New Guinea
- 12. A Pluralist Response to the Regulation of Sorcery and Witchcraft in Melanesia
- 13. Sorcery- and Witchcraft-Related Killings in Papua New Guinea: The Criminal Justice System Response
- 14. Sorcery Violence in Bougainville Through the Lens of Human Rights Law: A Critical View
- 15. The Belief in Sorcery in Solomon Islands
- Part 3: Positive Directions in Overcoming Violence
- 16. Kumo Koimbo: Accounts and Responses to Witchcraft in Gor, Simbu Province
- 17. Practical Church Interventions on Sorcery and Witchcraft Violence in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
- Author Biographies
