Giving up homicide: Korowai experience of witches and police (West Papua)

Oceania

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 33-52

  Stasch, Rupert ^a  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0035537695     PISSN: 00298077     EISSN: 18344461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2001.tb02763.x     Document Type: Article

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