Spirit Possessions and Avenging Ghosts: Stories of Supernatural Activity as Narratives of Terror and Mechanisms of Coping and Remembering

Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 157-200

  Perera, Sasanka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

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