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For the next few days, Issaka Dia received no visitors. But suddenly on a Sunday, his strength returned. He wanted to see people. At first, only a trickle of well-wishers flowed into the compound. By Tuesday, the trickle had become a flood, people standing in line to pay their respects. In the afternoons, the wait was more than two hours. The family gave the well-wishers plenty of water and millet gruel and insisted that the older people sit in the shade while they waited.
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Stoller, P. (2016). Chapter 19. In: The Sorcerer's Burden . Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31805-9_20
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