"The demon superstition": Abominable twins and mission culture in Onitsha history

Ethnology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-27

  Bastian, M L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

(WEST); AFRICA;

EID: 0034961953     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3773886     Document Type: Article

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5. The embattled Gods: Christianization of Igboland
6. The royal Niger company and the holy ghost mission at Onitsha 1885-1900
7. A Nigerian wife gives birth to eight babies
8. Fetal images: The power of visual culture in the politics of reproduction
9. Twinship in an Ekiti Yoruba town
10. Paradoxes of twinship in Ndembu ritual