Introduction: Outside all reason: Magic, sorcery and epistemology in anthropology

Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-30

  Kapferer, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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