Where divine horsemen ride: Trance dancing in West Africa

Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 109-128

  Friedson, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

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