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J. D. Lewis-Williams: Myth and Meaning: San/Bushman Folklore in Global Context

Cape Town: UCT Press, 2015, 249 pp., ISBN 9781775822059 London and New York: Routledge, 2016, 257 pp., ISBN 9781629581545

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    Mathias Guenther

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Guenther, M. J. D. Lewis-Williams: Myth and Meaning: San/Bushman Folklore in Global Context. Afr Archaeol Rev 35, 143–146 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-018-9282-6

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