An excess of truth: Violence, conspiracy theorizing and the Algerian civil war

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 643-674

  Silverstein, Paul A ^a  

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DOI: 10.1353/anq.2002.0068     Document Type: Article

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