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The Drums of Affliction: A Study of Religious Processes Among the Ndembu of Zambia
by Turner, V. W
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- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford University Press - Clarendon Press and The International African Institute, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover/ no DJ- Good condition; would be VG+, except photo frontis neatly separated from text (but still present & in good shape). 326 pages, b/w photo illus. Assume First Edition & 1st printing; c. 1968 & same year on title page- no note of further printings. Black cloth binding tight, clean & square w/ little to no wear. NO sun to spine, bumps, rubs or frays; all gilt spine lettering crisp & intact- copy displays very well. Text is tight, bright, clean, appears unmarked. NO hinge splits, NOT ex library. Handsome, well preserved copy. ***Reliable, fast! (27)
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- 305
- Title
- The Drums of Affliction: A Study of Religious Processes Among the Ndembu of Zambia
- Author
- Turner, V. W
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press - Clarendon Press and The International African Institute
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1968
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