The uncertainties and scale of the Covid-19 pandemic has mobilised global anxieties and
insecurities, and many cultural groups have conjuncturally embedded conspiracy theories …

Through a series of specific questions that cut to the core of conspiracism as a global social
and cultural phenomenon this book deconstructs the logic and rhetoric of conspiracy …

Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS
builds from Marc Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same …

The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are
undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book …

This article reviews and analyzes the growing bodies of literature on the regulation of
sorcery and witchcraft beliefs and practices. The most visible problems relating to these …

We develop a new model of how human agency-detection capacities and other socio-
cognitive biases are involved in forming religious beliefs. Crucially, we distinguish general …

The chapter begins with a discussion of the empirical evidence for the extent of AIDS origin
conspiracy beliefs in the United States and South Africa (the only countries for which survey …

Background'Transactional sex'was regarded by the mid-1990s as an important determinant
of HIV transmission, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Little attention has been paid to what …

This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa,
demonstrating why AIDS interventions in the former homeland of Venda have failed-and …

We examined the relationship between religion and health by highlighting the influences of
religion on the response to the 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak and the global HIV epidemic …