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The more Omar learned about the family, the more troubled he became. How could he negotiate his way through what seemed a minefield of family conflict? With the proximity of Issaka Dia’s death, his time in Tillaberi would be short. Issaka Dia didn’t waste time on trivial matters. He completed the family history, much of which Omar had heard before, and gave Omar the lowdown on the trustworthiness of his surviving brothers. Then they dove into the science of sorcery.
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Stoller, P. (2016). Chapter 12. In: The Sorcerer's Burden . Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31805-9_13
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