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Review Article: Representations of the self in traditional Africa: La Notion de Personne en Afrique Noire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

John Beattie
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Africa , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , July 1980 , pp. 313 - 320
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Copyright © International African Institute 1980

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