Purity, pollution and the invisible snake in southern Africa.

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Medical Anthropology

• Publication date

  1996-05-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/01459740.1996.9966129PMID 8757714
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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