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Plants of life, plants of death

by Frederick J. Simoons

This multidisciplinary study examines the cultural and medical significance of plants, analysing those associated with ritual purity, fertility and life alongside those linked to impurity, sickness and death.

Accession 19916 ISBN 9780299159047 Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
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