"Crying the death": Rituals of death among the Yamba (Cameroon)

Anthropos

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 349-361

  Gufler, Hermann ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cameroon; Death; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Western grassfields; Yamba

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354975     PISSN: 02579774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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