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Word: amangtak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture to the Interior) has taken his theme from French Philosopher-Sociologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl: "Le reve est le vrai dieu des Primitifs [The dream is the real god of primitive peoples]." The Russians know that the far-flung Amangtak-wena tribe is expecting its chief witch doctor to have a "dream," i.e., to receive from the spirit world an oracular directive on tribal policy. Hunter-Hero Pierre de Beauvilliers suspects a sinister hand when a Negro clutching a flamingo feather (the summons to a dream powwow) is murdered. Pierre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Mar. 14, 1955 | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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