We have long been aware that exchange of goods, services, etc plays a vital part in our own
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With a new foreword by Bruce Kapferer, Professor of Anthropology, James Cook University-
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On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to feed on their victims,
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