MEDICINE, MAGIC AND RELIGION
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MEDICINE, MAGIC AND RELIGION (ebook)

W. H. R. RIVERS

$660.00
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Editorial:
ROUTLEDGE
Materia
MEDICINA GRAL
ISBN:
9781134617999
Páginas:
156
Formato:
Epublication content package
Idioma:
Inglés
DRM
Si

This is Volume IV of six in a series in the International Library of Psychology on Anthropology and Psychology. Originally published in 1924, this is a collection of the Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916 and it represents perhaps the first attempt to interpret with real knowledge and sympathetic insight the thoughts and ideas that find expression in Primitive Medicine.

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