Witchcraft beliefs among the Yamba (Cameroon)

Anthropos

Volumn 94, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 181-198

  Gufler, Hermann ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cameroon; Western Grassfields; Witchcraft; Yamba

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033475347     PISSN: 02579774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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