I am deeply ashamed of the vote by my native Hungary

The issue has several other essays on Azande witchcraft, including a smart reflection by my friend @joshuacraze.bsky.social on what can-and-cannot be said when a society is talking about witches

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hau/2024...

Lately, dabaya replaced the famous benge oracle, that used strychnine poison instead of the decapitation of the chicken. Benge is a cornerstone of Evans-Pritchard's famous 'Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande' book. The essay is an anthropological reflection on the changes in witchcraft.

I was invited to attend a dabaya divination in 2019 to settle a case of adultery at the chief's court. Dabaya is a divination when an operator cuts the head off a chicken and the place of the collapse of the chicken and the position of the carcass determines if the accused is a witch or no.

I have a new academic essay at @HAU on the famous Azande witchcraft, based on a decade of fieldwork and almost a dozen trips to Western Equatoria state of South Sudan. I try to unpack social transformation through the changing nature of oracles.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...