AFST 501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Handcar, Human Events

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: African Studies
• Course: AFST 501
• Professor: Rowland Apentiik

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But consulting the diviner, about what to do about witchcraft is seen as crime. The goal of the study in 1985, was to expire the ramifications of the soccer discourses and witchcraft practices, and set up new ways to deal with the threat. Colonial legacy: when confronted with you shall see the colonial courts have consistently retested to admit that such threats could be actionable in courts. There was an implicit point of view that assumes scientific knowledge can rationally explain all human events, using standard pattern of causaliu. The question then becomes whether, is whether one should seek scientific explantions for paranormal phenomenon. As one legal scholar agreed, the life of the law, is not covered by logic, but ny expierene. The colonial courts in most cases, come to the conclusion that threaths must be physical and not metaphysiccal. The refusal to integrate the local cosmology during.