“Where obscurity is a virtue”: The mystique of unintelligibility in Santería ritual
- 31 October 2005
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Language & Communication
- Vol. 25 (4), 351-375
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2005.03.008
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