Surpassing ''survival'': On the urbanity of ''traditional religion'' in the Afro-Atlantic world

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Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 36-43

  Lorand Matory, J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85012464192     PISSN: 00064246     EISSN: 21625387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00064246.2000.11431107     Document Type: Note

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