The will: Inheritance distribution and feuding families

Remember Me: Constructing Immortality: Beliefs on Immortality, Life, and Death

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 89-102

  Drake, Deirdre ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203844540     Document Type: Chapter

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