Genre, Motive, and Metaphor: Conditions for Creativity in Ritual Language
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Cultural Anthropology
- Vol. 2 (4) , 445-469
- https://doi.org/10.1525/can.1987.2.4.02a00020
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