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Kiyang-yang, a West-African Postwar Idiom of Distress
In 1984, a healing cult for young barren women in southern Guinea Bissau developed into a movement, Kiyang-yang, that shook society to its foundations and had national repercussions. “Idiom of distress” is used here as a heuristic tool to understand how Kiyang-yang was able to link war and post-war-...
Autores principales: | de Jong, Joop T., Reis, Ria |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer US
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2878590/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20422270 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-010-9178-7 |
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