Bantu witchcraft accusations

This dataset was collected from accounts of witchcraft accusations that took place in 44 Bantu societies from sub-Saharan Africa. The accusations are historic. Source materials were originally identified from societies listed in the Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock 1967), a large cross-cultural database. These were acquired from the website d-place.org (Kirby et al. 2016).The dataset includes information on the sex of the accused witch and their relationship to their accusers and purported victims. There are also variables taken from the Ethnographic Atlas that were amended for the analysis by combining categories. These include information on post-marital residence patterns (where couples live after marriage) and levels of polygamous marriage.

本数据集采集自撒哈拉以南非洲44个班图社会中巫术指控的相关史料，此类指控均为历史事件。原始素材最初取自大型跨文化数据库《民族志图集》(Ethnographic Atlas，默多克，1967)所收录的社会群体，相关数据获取自d-place.org网站(柯比等，2016)。数据集涵盖被指控巫师的性别信息，以及其与指控者、所称受害者之间的亲属关系。此外还包含源自《民族志图集》的变量，经合并类别以适配本次分析，这些变量涵盖婚后居住模式（即婚后夫妇的居住地点）与一夫多妻婚姻的盛行程度。