A journey into symbolic disorder: Miskitu reactions to Mestizo Catholic ritual in Nicaragua

@article{Jamieson2010AJI,
  title={A journey into symbolic disorder: Miskitu reactions to Mestizo Catholic ritual in Nicaragua},
  author={Mark A. Jamieson},
  journal={Ethnography},
  year={2010},
  volume={11},
  pages={409 - 424},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145000854}
}
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