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.

本数据集汇聚了源自撒哈拉以南非洲44个班图社会中的巫术指控案例，其指控具有历史性。原始资料最初源自《民族志概览》（Murdock 1967），这是一项庞大的跨文化数据库。这些资料来源于d-place.org网站（Kirby等，2016年）。数据集涵盖了被指控巫女的性别及其与指控者和所谓受害者的关系信息。此外，还包括从《民族志概览》中提取的变量，这些变量在分析过程中经过合并分类的调整。这些变量涉及婚后居住模式（婚后夫妇的居住地）以及一夫多妻婚姻的程度。