Maleficent fetishes and the sensual order of the uncanny in South-West Congo

Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 175-197

  Devisch, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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