The Sorcerer's Burden : the Ethnographic Saga of a Global Family
This book emerges from the author's 35 years of research and thought about the Songhay people of Niger. This ethnographic novel follows the life of Omar Dia, the oldest son of a West African sorcerer. When his father falls ill and dies, the great sorcerer vomits a small metal chain onto his che...
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| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing,
2016
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in literary anthropology
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