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Anthropology Today

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 19-22

  Shepler, Susan ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78649772310     PISSN: 0268540X     EISSN: 14678322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2010.00771.x     Document Type: Article

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