Church, Chief, Cat, Witch
Chloe Nahum-Claudel: Confessed Sorcerers, 3 November 2022
Of Humans, Pigs and Souls: An Essay on the Yagwoia ‘Womba’ Complex
by Jadran Mimica.
Hau, 160 pp., £16, February 2021,978 1 912808 31 1 Show More
by Jadran Mimica.
Hau, 160 pp., £16, February 2021,
Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu
by Tom Bratrud.
Berghahn, 213 pp., £89, April,978 1 80073 464 7 Show More
by Tom Bratrud.
Berghahn, 213 pp., £89, April,
“... sleep and begin the process of family therapy, dream analysis and shamanic exorcism. For Jadran Mimica, a lecturer at the University of Sydney, womba affliction has its origin in local ideas of kinship, which involve people consuming one another’s bodies and energies to make other bodies and energies. Pork offers a substitute for human ... ”