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Ghosts, Divination, and Magic among the Nuosu: An Ethnographic Examination from Cognitive and Cultural Evolutionary Perspectives

HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE (2022)

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