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,
“... of her womba soul affliction’. Fire on the Island, an account by the Norwegian anthropologist Tom Bratrud of his time on Ahamb, a small island in the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, offers a contrasting picture. Ahamb had no history of witch-hunts, but while Bratrud was there a Christian revivalist movement took ... ”
