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Keeping faith with science

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HortonRobin, Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: essays on magic, science and religion. Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 482 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 521 36087 0.

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Richard Fardon
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Africa , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , July 1994, pp. 406 - 414
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Copyright © International African Institute 1994

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