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Experiencing ritual : a new interpretation of African healing /

"The scene is Zambia in 1985. A patient has been invaded by the tooth of a dead hunter, a spirit object which causes her much pain. Only a drum ritual can cure it. The company starts to sing and drum, and when at last the dramatic climax breaks, the anthropologist sees a six-inch blob--a kind o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turner, Edith L. B., 1921- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1992.
Colección:Series in contemporary ethnography.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo