ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Herd Mentality, Forensic Pathology, Real Stories
8 Sep 2018
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Yesterday"s fil(cid:373) world of witchcraft: looked at witchcraft accusations in the central african republic where approximately. 85% of the population believe in witchcraft and that it is the source of all malevolent things. If there is a confliction relationship, the scapegoat is often witchcraft. It highlights how witchcraft accusations function to maintain the status quo: people who get a accused are woman or who are marginalized and vulnerable with the societies context. If you can pinpoint the issue, it is believed that everything will return to normal. Earliest vampire myths: vampire like entities in roman greek mesopotamian mythology, example- spirits that wanderers the earth stealing aura of plants, animals and other animate beings could materialize as gusts of winds. If not all death processes are fully followed, they will return and possess people and things: they would seek out human blood.
