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The medical culture of the Ovambo of southern Angola and northern Namibia

1993-01-01

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This thesis focusses on the medical culture of the Ovambo peoples of southern Angola and northern Namibia, a group who have been little-researched anthropologically. Because health and affliction are such poignant human concerns, the study of a society's medical culture can tell us much about their social and cultural organisation in general. It is for this reason that Ovambo medical culture has been examined in r...

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Literature Corpus work: 767600bc-b6e5-5dab-a859-940a1875804e
DOI: 10.22024/unikent/01.02.86233

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