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Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Rutgers University Press; First Thus edition (April 1, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813517680
ISBN-13: 978-0813517681
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,506,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This book cites 25 books:

Nomads of Niger by Carol Beckwith on page 4, and Back Matter
Childhood and Society by Erik H. Erikson on page 160, and Back Matter
Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development by James W. Stigler in Back Matter
Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy, And The Self by Harry Guntrip in Back Matter
Freedom and Culture by Dorothy D. Lee in Back Matter

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Freedom in Fulani Social Life: An Introspective Ethnography by Paul Riesman in Front Matter
Liberia: The Violence of Democracy (The Ethnography of Political Violence) by Mary H. Moran in Back Matter
Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community by Kathryn Linn Geurts in Back Matter
Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania by Denise Roth Allen in Back Matter
Navajo Lifeways: Contemporary Issues, Ancient Knowledge by Maureen Trudelle Schwarz in Back Matter

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