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- Title
Handling Sorcery in a State System of Law: Magic, Violence and Kastom in Vanuatu.
- Authors
Rio, Knut
- Abstract
This paper addresses the consequences of a local sorcery accusation that came to the attention of Vanuatu state police, courts and media. The paper discusses what happens to sorcery practices when these become absorbed into a modern, bureaucratic context. The argument revolves around the national imaginary formed by state power and the mass media in people's contemporary lives. In formulating new forms of opposition to sorcery, they also create a new imaginary space of national belonging.
- Subjects
VANUATU; WITCHCRAFT; MAGIC; MASS media; STATE police
- Publication
Oceania, 2010, Vol 80, Issue 2, p182
- ISSN
0029-8077
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.1834-4461.2010.tb00079.x