Reconstructing the World's First Cosmology | Radical Anthropology Group

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 19:45

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A specialist in African hunter gatherer myths and rituals uses ground-breaking methods to reconstruct the very earliest of all human systems of ritual and belief.

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An Intensive Study of Mythology

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Reconstructing The World's First Cosmology

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