Violence and the politics of remorse: Lessons from South Africa

Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 179-233

  Scheper Hughes, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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