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Nepal Studies Association Bulletin, No. 11, Nepal Studies Association, Donald A. Messerschmidt Oct 1976

Nepal Studies Association Bulletin, No. 11, Nepal Studies Association, Donald A. Messerschmidt

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Nepal Studies Association Bulletin, No. 10, Nepal Studies Association, Donald A. Messerschmidt Apr 1976

Nepal Studies Association Bulletin, No. 10, Nepal Studies Association, Donald A. Messerschmidt

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Nepal Studies Association Bulletin, No. 8, Nepal Studies Association, Donald A. Messerschmidt Jun 1975

Nepal Studies Association Bulletin, No. 8, Nepal Studies Association, Donald A. Messerschmidt

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Nepal Studies Association Bulletin, No. 9, Nepal Studies Association, Donald A. Messerschmidt Jan 1975

Nepal Studies Association Bulletin, No. 9, Nepal Studies Association, Donald A. Messerschmidt

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 7, Nepal Studies Association, John Scholz Dec 1974

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 7, Nepal Studies Association, John Scholz

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 6, Nepal Studies Association, John Scholz Jul 1974

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 6, Nepal Studies Association, John Scholz

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 5, Nepal Studies Association, John Scholz Jan 1974

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 5, Nepal Studies Association, John Scholz

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.


The Sasswood Ordeal Of The West Atlantic Tribes Of Sierra Leone And Liberia: An Ethnohistoriographic Survey, Sarah Louise Davies Aug 1973

The Sasswood Ordeal Of The West Atlantic Tribes Of Sierra Leone And Liberia: An Ethnohistoriographic Survey, Sarah Louise Davies

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The sasswood ordeal of poison presents a divinatory ritual which has been used in criminal cases by the traditional African of Sierra Leone and Liberia. For at least six hundred years, the peoples of these present countries have imposed this strictest of ordeals on their moral transgressors; and the practice has survived, despite the protestations of nineteenth-century missionaries and the encroachment of the western world.

The investigation of the historical evidence of the sasswood ordeal among the West Atlantic tribes of Africa has three basic purposes. First, because of the paucity of interpretive data on the sasswood ordeal, the primary …


Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 4, Nepal Studies Association May 1973

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 4, Nepal Studies Association

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 3, Nepal Studies Association Feb 1973

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 3, Nepal Studies Association

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 2, Nepal Studies Association Jul 1972

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 2, Nepal Studies Association

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 1, Nepal Studies Association Mar 1972

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 1, Nepal Studies Association

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.