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Keine Treffer für „According to this week's lecture on witchcraft, why do we often see an increase in reliance on witchcraft accusations in conditions of culture contact between small-scale and large-scale, more powerful societies? There is actually a decrease in reliance on witchcraft accusations in these culture-contact situations. The large-scale societies often encourage local people to depend on witchcraft accusations and local healers' treatment of illness so that they will die off more quickly and the more powerful society will not have to deal with them for as long. Witchcraft accusations are a way to rebel against colonial powers, plain and simple. Contact with a larger, powerful society brings rapid, extensive, and often catastrophic change, and witchcraft accusations provide a way to explain these problems.".