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Tending the Spirits: The Shamanic Experience in Northeadtern Laos

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PUBLISHER: White Lotus Press
ISBN: 9789748495712
AUTHOR Findly, Ellison Banks
RELEASED 2016-03-07
PRINT Bangkok, 2016
WL CODE E22708
SIZE 266 pp., fully illus. in col, 210 x 295 mm.
BOOK WEIGHT 1.004 Kg
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