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Crossing boundaries in the Great Lakes

Religious mobility and body language in Kubandwa possession cults

Pages 333-349 | Received 01 Sep 2008, Published online: 19 Jun 2009

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Film

  • Pennacini , Cecilia . Kampala Babel, 54 . Produced by Archivio Nazionale Cinematografico della Resistenza, with the support of the Italian Ethnological Mission in Equatorial Africa and Piemonte Doc Film Fund .

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