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The Production of Witchcraft/Witchcraft as Production: Memory, Modernity, andthe Slave Trade in Sierra Leone

Rosalind Shaw

American Ethnologist, Vol. 24, No. 4. (Nov., 1997), pp. 856-876.

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4 'Delivered from the Powers of Darkness' Confessions of Satanic Riches in Christian GhanaBirgit MeyerAfrica: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 65, No. 2. (1995), pp. 236-255.Stable URL:

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4 Bodily Fluids and Usufruct: Controlling Property in Nairobi, 1917-1939Luise WhiteCanadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 24, No. 3.(1990), pp. 418-438.Stable URL:

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12 The Organization and Functions of the "Ragbenle" Society of the TemneVernon R. DorjahnAfrica: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 29, No. 2. (Apr., 1959), pp. 156-170.Stable URL:

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