By Valerio Valeri
Contends that the ambivalence felt through all people approximately intercourse, demise and consuming different animals might be defined via a collection of coordinated ideas which are expressed in taboos. Valeri conjures up the realm of the Huaulu, to teach the points of interest of the animal global which invades the human international in lots of methods.
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