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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Fortune-telling"”.
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Gypsy fortune-telling in Houston: the study of a profession
… Texas, and focuses upon the profession of fortune -telling. A review of the literature on the Gypsy in twentieth-century America is undertaken, and this information is related to contemporary Gypsy life in Harris County. Approximately forty-five sedentary Gypsy families reside in Harris …
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Touching hands, touching lives : pathways to fortune telling and social work services : parallels and divergences
… the propelling forces that lead persons to use fortune telling and social work services. The authors sought to draw parallels and divergences between both client groups in an attempt to examine pathways for making social work services more accessible to persons who find fortune telling appealing …
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Samuel Parris: minister at Salem Village
… began in obscurity, with cautious experiments in fortune telling. Books on the subject had 'stolen' into the land; and all over New England, late in 1691, young people were being 'led away with little sorceries.'" The young girls of Salem Village had devised their own creation of a crystal ball …
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Law and the Paranormal: A Critical Perspective on Legal Rationality
… laws regulating mediumship, astrology, and fortune-telling. It argues that this development provides a case-study reflecting the emergence of several elements of the modern legal system. These include its conceptions of private property, contract, and the legal subject, but also, …
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Alien Sex Club: Educating audiences about continuing rates of HIV transmission using art and design
… It uses live art in the form of hospitality and fortune telling in order to question the existing conventions of the art gallery and engage audiences to consider HIV in new ways. It uses autoethnography, a qualitative research method drawn from the social sciences to theorise the methodology of …