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A new English translation of a forgotten German text that influenced cultural understanding of mo...

A new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's influential ethnography of a village in Dominica.Over t...

An English translation of a French study of the rituals of the Mande people in West Africa. Ritua...

''The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don't know the Mafia. I...

'The present volume stems from a workshop that the editors organized at the Needham Research Inst...

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