The shaman-trickster's art of misdirection: The rhetoric of Farrakhan and the million men

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-60

  Arthos, John ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Double consciousness; Double voiced utterance; Farrakhan; Magic; Million Man March; Shaman; Sophistry; Status duality; Trickster

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042904442     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335630109384317     Document Type: Article

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