Cannibal transformations: Colonialism and commodification in the Sierra Leone hinterland

Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 50-70

  Shaw, Rosalind ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203398258-3     Document Type: Chapter

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