The power of powder: Multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban ifá (or mana, again)

Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 189-225

  Holbraad, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203088791     Document Type: Chapter

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