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Academic work of Witchcraft in the last decade has been plagued by fundamental methodological flaws. There has been doctoring of source texts (either through sloppiness or deliberate deception), misrepresentation of sources to bolster counter-arguments, reliance on secondary sources to the exclusion of primary, reliance on unreliable sources when reliable ones are readily available, reliance on "common knowledge” without checking basic facts, reliance on unrepresentative sources when more representative sources are easy to come by, and neglect of alternative hypotheses when such hypotheses are unpopular. The over-all impression is one of a dismissive attitude towards a fringe subject resulting in slip-shod research and analysis. This article examines recent work in the field and exposes many of these basic flaws in methodology, in an effort to assist folklorists responding to Simpson's call to re-evaluate the current work in the field with more critical eyes than have their predecessors and so avoid the same methodological pitfalls.
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This article deals with the shift from the building up of cultural heritage to the building up of tourism. The example of olives and olive oil has been selected because of the contemporary worldwide craze for olive tree products ( Olea europaea l.). Festive events enhancing olive by-products for new urban audiences and tourists are described first. Then the article focuses on the processes that accompany the shift from cultural heritage to tourism. It shows how the products' status varies according to the spatial, social, symbolical, and sensorial level.
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AbstractThe author first outlines the problems of Woman's Liberation and gives us the doctrine of Marx and Engels on this subject. In the second part, the author studies the evolution of the situation of women in the U.S.S.R. from the Revolution to the present day. He analyses certain contradictions in Soviet society, and then focuses his analysis on the problems of employment, income and educational opportunities. He also deals with the problem of sexual freedom and the limitations imposed upon it. Finally, he examines the role of the woman in political and social domains, and attempts to show that this may be the consequence of the present day situation of women in the Soviet Union. The article is based on Soviet publications and documents.
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The Ferlo territory is increasingly "occupied", humanly, environmentally and institutionally. A mapping based on the perceptions of local stakeholders (ZADA in French, PBRM or Perception-Based Regional Mapping) was carried out to identify the factors that, from the point of view of these stakeholders, structure the spatial organization of this territory and its surroundings: uses, practices, localisms or any other factor identified. By GIS-merging together all the maps obtained, each corresponding to an interview, we obtain a spatialized database on the determinants structuring this territory. Although the structural, ecological and socio-historical elements remain and even tend towards the specialization of territories into production 'countries', the short 2-months period herds graze in the Ferlo and the generalized use of supplementation during the pastoral lean season suggests a reorientation of these herds towards the south. It induces areas of possible tension where the north-south axis of transhumance and the West-East axis of agricultural colonization intersect. This experimental method allows us to reflect on the role of environmental observatories and the Ferlo in particular.
Keywords: Ferlo, Sénégal, transhumances, zonage à dires d'acteurs, observatoires hommes-milieux, tensions socio-environnementales, Ferlo, Senegal, transhumances, perception-based regional mapping, environmental tensions, socio-environmental observatories