Mana is

A. a kind of bread prepared during communal rituals in Melanesia and Polynesia.
B. absent in societies with differential access to strategic resources.
C. the most archaic religious doctrine.
D. concerned with supernatural beings rather than with powers or forces.
E. acquired in Melanesia, but in Polynesia it is attached to political offices.


E

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