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Download the searchable PDF of Volume 21 1990
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Obituary John Hugh Marshall Beattie iii
Burkhard Schnepel Corporations, personhood and ritual in tribal society - three interconnected topics in the anthropology of Meyer Fortes 1-31
S. A. Mousalimas The concept of participation in Levy-Bruhl's Primative mentality 33- 46
Paul Dresch Lawrence of Morocco - adventures with an Arabic dictionary 47-50
Tony Free Written or living culture? 51-65
Zdzislaw Mach Recent changes in the state symbols of Poland 66-67
Andrew Duff-Cooper D. F. Greenberg, The construction of homosexuality [review] 68-69
Charles Stewart P. Borgeaud, The cult of Pan in ancient Greece [review] 70-71
David N. Gellner L. Siegel Laughing matters - comic tradition in India [review] 71-73
Helen Lambert A. G. Gold Fruitful journeys - the ways of Rajasthani pilgrims [review] 73-75
Jonathan Katz C. Capwell The music of the Bauls of Bengal [review] 75-78
Mike Hitchcock G. Kligman The wedding of the dead - ritual, poetics and popular culture in Transylvania [review] 79
Ingrid Uys L. P. Joha Afrikaner dissidents - a social psychological study of identity and dissent [review] 80-81
Robert Layton T. Ingold, D. Riches, J. Woodburn Hunters and gatherers 1. History, evolution and social change 2. Property, power and ideology [review] 81-82
A. Rosenfeld R. Layton Who needs the past? Indigenous values and archaeology [review] 83-84
R. H. Barnes J. L. Wright Creeks and seminoles - destruction and regeneration of the Muscogulge people [review] 85
R. H. Barnes P. A. Bunte, R. J. Franklin From the sands to the mountain - change and persistence in a Southern Paiute community [review] 85-86
Ingjerd Hoem D. L. Oliver Oceania - native cultures of the Pacific Islands. Vol.2 [review] 86-88
Jeremy MacClancy B. Krauss Keneti - South Seas adventures of Kenneth Emory [review] 88-89
Michael Maguire M. Fleischer Warehousing violence [review] 89-91
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David N. Gellner Introduction - what is the anthropology of Buddhism about? 95-112
Gerd Houtman How a foreigner invented "Buddendom" in Burmese - from tha-tha-na to bok-da' ba-tha 113-128
Jonathan Spencer Tradition and transformation - recent writing on the anthropology of Buddhism in Sri Lanka 129-140
Michael Carrithers Jainism and Buddhism as enduring historical streams 141-163
Graham E. Clarke Ideas of merit (Bsod-nams), Virtue (Dhe-ba), blessing (Byin-rlabs) and material prosperity (Rten-'brel) in highland Nepal 165-184
Charles Ramble How Buddhist are Buddhist communities? The construction of tradition in two Lamaist villages 185-197
D. P. Martinez The dead - Shinto aspects of Buddhist ritual 199-209
David N. Gellner Elitist antirationalism and anthropological intellectualism - two styles in writing the history of Buddhism 211-215
Helen Callaway C. Geertz Works and lives - the anthropologist as author [review] 217-219
Manuchehr Sanadjian J. Clifford, G. E. Marcus Writing culture - the poetics and politics of ethnography [review] 219-220
Fiona Magowan P. Stoller The taste of ethnographic things - the senses in anthropology [review] 221- 222
Tony Free T. Ingold What is an animal? [review] 223-225
David Zeitlyn R. Fardon Raiders and refugees - trends in Chamba political development 1750- 1950 [review] 225-227
Lidia Sciama R. Hirschon Heirs of the Greek catastrophe - the social life of Asia Minor refugees in Piraeus [review] 227-230
Jeremy MacClancy E. LiPuma The gift of kinship - structure and practice in Maring social organization [review] 230-231
Charles Stewart S. Wolfram In-laws and outlaws - kinship and marriage in England [review] 231-233
Peter Parkes A. S. Ahmed Pakistan society - Islam, ethnicity and leadership in South Asia [review] 234- 235
Don Macleod V. L. Smith Hosts and guests - the anthropology of tourism [review] 236
Niels Sampath R. Raphael The men from the boys - rites of passage in male America [review] 237-238
R. H. Barnes J. H. Moore The Cheyenne nation - a social and demographic history [review] 238-240
R. H. Barnes F. C. Shipek Pushed into the rocks - Southern California Indian land tenure 1769- 1986 [review] 240
Julia D. Harrison L. F. Salmen Listen to the people - participant-observer evaluation of development projects [review] 241-242
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Ahmed Al-Shahi A. de Waal Famine that kills - Darfur, Sudan, 1984-1985 [review] 242-245
Download the searchable PDF of Volume 22 1991
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The Editors Obituary notice: Andrew Duff-Cooper 1
Peter A. Lienhardt Disorientations - part three (edited with an introduction by Ahmed Al-Shahi) 3-18
Tony Free The politics and philosophical genealogy of Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer 19-39
T. Wright The fieldwork photographs of Jenness and Malinowski and the beginnings of modern anthropology 41-58
David Zeitlyn Do Mambila cockerels lay eggs? Reflections on knowledge and belief 59-64
T. V. Sathyamurthy Obituary - John Hugh Marshall Beattie 1915-1990 65-70
Hugh Beattie and Jeremy Coote J.H.M. Beattie - a select bibliography 70-72
Jeremy Coote Professor J.H.M. Beattie and the OUAS 73
Charles Stewart T. M. Luhrmann Persuasions of the witch's craft - ritual magic and witchcraft in present-day England [review] 75-77
Marcus Banks P. Werbner The migration process - capital gifts and offerings among British Pakistanis [review] 77-80
Marcus Banks A. Shaw A Pakistani community in Britain [review] 77-80
Martin Stokes I. Svanberg Kazak refugees in Turkey - a study of cultural persistence and social change [review] 80-82
Shahin Bekhradnia R. Just Women in the Athenian law and life [review] 82-84
Joy Hendry H. Haarmann Symbolic values of foreign language use - from the Japanese case to a general sociolinguistic perspective [review] 84-86
David N. Gellner G. G. Raheja The poison in the gift - ritual, prestation, and the dominant caste in a North Indian village [review] 87-89
Helen S. Lambert F. Zimmerman The jungle and the aroma of meats - an ecological theme in Hindu medicine [review] 89-91
R. H. Barnes B. Kapferer Legends of people, myths of state - violence, intolerance, and political culture in Sri Lanka and Australia [review] 91-93
Monica Janowski J. Rousseau Central Borneo - ethnic identity and social life in a stratified society [review] 93-95
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Dirk Verboven Space, time and bodiliness in Dogon funerals - a praxiological view 101-117
Rix Pinxten Myth as cultural praxis 119-128
Pieter Remes Rapping - a sociolinguistic study of oral tradition in black urban communities in the United States 129-149
Karel Arnaut Art and the African world - a historical analysis of their interconnection 151-165
Wilfried van Damme Some notes on defining aesthetics in the anthropological literature 167-181
Robert Parkin C. A. Lutz Unnatural emotions - everyday sentiments on a Micronesian atoll and their challenge to western theory [review] 183
Gareth Burr M. F. Brown Tsewa's gift - magic and meaning in an Amazonian society [review] 184
Peter Riviere D. M. Guss To weave and sing - art, symbol, and narrative in the South American rain forest [review] 186
R. H. Barnes D. G. Sherman Rice, rupees, and ritual - economy and society among the Samosir Batak of Sumatra [review] 187
R. H. Barnes O. F. Smedal Order and difference - an ethnographic study of Orang Lom of Bangka, west Indonesia [review] 189
Anthony Shelton D. Rose Patterns of American culture - ethnography and estrangement [review] 190
Richard Rudgley S. Kan Symbolic immortality - the Tlingit potlatch of the nineteenth century [review] 191
W. S. F. Pickering M. T. Huber The bishop's progress - a historical ethnography of Catholic missionary experience on the Sepik frontier [review] 193
Alison Petch Visual anthropology, vol. III, nos 2-3 (1990) 194
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Rodney Needham Obituary - Andrew Duff- Cooper 1947-1991 197
Thomas R. Trautmann Whig ethnology from Locke to Morgan 201-18
Janusz Mucha Ritualization as substitution 219-34
Malcolm Bull Confessions of a reluctant theorist - A treatise on social theory, volume I - the methodology of social theory volume II - substantive social theory selected essays of W.G. Runciman [review] 235-44
Peter A. Lienhardt Disorientations - part four 245-62
James G. Carrier M. Godelier and M. Strathern Big men and great men - personifications of power in Melanesia [review] 269
Andrew Duff-Cooper J. A. Boon Affinities and extremes - crisscrossing the bittersweet ethnology of East Indies history, Hindu- Balinese culture, and Indo-European allure [review] 272
Linda Hitchox G. Wijeyewardene Ethnic groups across national boundaries in mainland Southeast Asia [review] 275
Marcus Banks S. Westwood, P. Bhachu Enterprising women - ethnicity, economy and gender relations [review] 277
Anthony Shelton S. Price Primitive art in civilized places [review] 279
Julia D. Harrison S. M. Pearce Museum studies in material culture [review] 282
Lori-Ann Foley M. Green Symbol and image in Celtic religious art [review] 284
John Castleford L. B. Davis, B. O. K. Reeves Hunters of the recent past [review] 286
Sarah Milliken C. Gamble, O. Soffer The world at 18000BP, vol. 1 - high latitudes - vol 2 - low latitudes [review] 287
Sarah Milliken S. J. Shennan Archaeological approaches to cultural identity [review] 288
Mareile Flitsch Y. Dabing, W. Bingan Dictionary of Chinese custom [review] Zhongguo fensu cidian 289
S. A. Mousalimas M. Hoppal, O. von Sadovszky Shamanism - past and present [review] 290
Download the searchable PDF of Volume 23 1992
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Howard Morphy Aesthetics in a cross-cultural perspective - some reflections on Native American basketry 1-16
Paul Dresch R. Fardon Localizing strategies - regional traditions of ethnographic writing [review] 17
Shahin Bekhradnia The decline of the Zoroastrian priesthood and its effect on the Iranian Zoroastrian community in the twentieth century 37-47
Selina Ching Chan Some brief reflections on structural continuity in Chinese peasant society 49
David Parkin E. Ardener, M. Chapman The voice of prophecy and other essays [review] 57
Mike O’Hanlon D. B. Gewertz, F. K. Errington Twisted histories, altered contexts - representing the Chambri in a world system [review] 67
R. H. Barnes R. W. Hefner The political economy of mountain Java - an interpretive history [review] 70
Marcus Banks R. Inden Imagining India [review] 71
Graham Dwyer J. Leslie Roles and rituals for Hindu women [review] 75
David N. Gellner J. McDaniel The madness of the saints - ecstatic religion in Bengal [review] 76
Jeremy MacClancy J. Eade, M. J. Sallnow Contesting the sacred - the anthropology of Christian pilgrimage [review] 78
Steve Bruce M. Bull, K. Lockhart Seeking a sanctuary - Seventh-Day Adventism and the American dream [review] 79
W. S. F. Pickering P. G. Forster T. Cullen Young - missionary and anthropologist [review] 81
Anthony Simpson M. Jolly, M. MacIntyre Family and gender in the Pacific - domestic contradictions and the colonial impact [review] 82
Mareile Flitsch J. L. Watson, E. S. Rawski Death ritual in late imperial and modern China [review] 84
Tony Ashworth J. Haas The anthropology of war [review] 86
Terence Wright E. Edwards Jenness and Malinowski - fieldwork and photographs 89
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W. S. F. Pickering Introduction - old positions and new concerns 99
Stephan Dietrich Mission, local culture and the "Catholic ethnology" of Pater Schmidt 111
Charles Macdonald Protestant missionaries and Palawan natives - dialogue, conflict or misunderstanding? 127
James Howe Protestants, Catholics, and "gentiles" - the articulation of missionary and indigenous culture on the San Blas coast of Panama 139
Joan F. Burke Research in a post-missionary situation - among Zairean sisters of Notre Dame de Namur 157
R. H. Barnes A Catholic mission and the purification of culture - experiences in an Indonesian community 169
Peter Riviere G. E. R. Lloyd Demystifying mentalities [review] 181
Chris Holdsworth S. J. Tambiah Magic, science, religion, and the scope of rationality [review] 182
David N. Gellner P. Connerton How societies remember [review] 185
Neil L. Whitehead B. R. Weismann Like beads on a string - a culture history of the Seminole Indians in north peninsular Florida [review] 186
R. H. Barnes A. F. Aveni Empires of time - calendars, clocks, and cultures [review] 187
David Zeitlyn W. F. Hanks Referential practice - language and lived space among the Maya [review] 189
R. H. Barnes E. Sapir American Indian languages, part I [review] 191
S. A. Mousalimas A. Fienup Riordan Eskimo essays - Yup'ik lives and how we see them [review] 192
S. A. Mousalimas N. M. Dauenhauer, R. Dauenhauer Haa tuwunaagu yis - for healing our spirit - Tlingit oratory [review] 193
Jeremy MacClancy M. Chapman, H. MacBeth Food for humanity - cross-disciplinary readings [review] 194
Mike Maguire D. Levinson Family violence in cross- cultural perspective [review] 195
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Nicholas Argenti African aesthetics - moving to see the mask 197-215
Andrew Duff-Cooper Prolegomena to analyses of changes in aspects of Balinese life on Lombok 217-237
John Knight Globalization and new ethnographic localities - anthropological reflections on Giddens's Modernity and Self-identity 239
Robert Parkin Dispersed alliance and terminological change in South Asia 253-262
Robert Parkin J. Mimica Intimations of infinity - the cultural meaning of the Iqwaye counting system and number [review] 267
Robert Parkin J. F. Weiner The heart of the pearl shell - the mythological dimension of Foi sociality [review] 267
D. P. Martinez O. Moon From paddy field to ski slope - the revitalization of tradition in Japanese village life [review] 271
D. P. Martinez S. K. Johnson The Japanese through American eyes [review] 271
D. P. Martinez T. C. Bestor Neighborhood Tokyo [review] 271
Joy Hendry M. M. Hamabata Crested kimono - power and love in the Japanese business family [review] 274
Susannah Kennedy J. Boddy Wombs and alien spirits - women, men, and the Zar cult in northern Sudan [review] 276
Sian E. Jay H. B. Broch Growing up agreeably - Bonerate childhood observed [review] 278
Jeremy MacClancy A. Feldman Formations of violence - the narrative of the body and political terror in Northern Ireland [review] 280
Sharon Macdonald H. Donnan, G. McFarlane Social anthropology and public policy in Northern Ireland [review] 281
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Godfrey Lienhardt Frazer's anthropology: science and sensibility 1-12
Godfrey Lienhardt Frazer's anthropology - science and sensibility 1-12
Gregory van Alstyne The unvoiced text - allusion in Malawian sung poetry 13-32
Simon Sinclair The present tense again 33-48
Georg Pfeffer Dispersed alliance, terminological change and evidence [comments on RJ Parkin in JASO 1992 (23:3) 253-62] 49-54
Robert Parkin Reply to Pfeffer 54-63
Fiona Bowie Anthropology and missionaries [comments on special issue of JASO 1992 (23:2)] 64-6
Jeremy Coote Malinowski the photographer [comments on T Wright JASO 1991 (22:1) 41-58] 66-9
Stephen Hugh-Jones Useful arts - artful utensils (basketmakers - meaning and form in native American baskets) 71
Robert Parkin S. Howell, R. Willis Societies at peace - anthropological perspectives [review] 75
David Zeitlyn R. G. Dillon Ranking and resistance - a precolonial Cameroonian polity in regional perspective [review] 77
Richard Rudgley R. Brunton The abandoned narcotic - Kava and cultural instability in Melanesia [review] 79
David N. Gellner H. Havnevik Tibetan Buddhist nuns - history, cultural norms and social reality [review] 80
Anthony Shelton J. H. Ingham Mary, Michael, and Lucifer - folk Catholicism in Central Mexico [review] 82
Anthony Shelton S. Brandes Power and persuasion - fiestas and social control in rural Mexico [review] 83
Martin Stokes C. A. Waterman Juju - a social history and ethnography of an African popular music [review] 85
Chris Holdsworth L. Nencel, P. Pels Constructing knowledge - authority and critique in social science [review] 87
N. J. Allen S. Atran Cognitive foundations of natural history - towards an anthropology of science [review] 89
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Peter Riviere Godfrey Lienhardt [17.1.1921 to 9.11.1993] 101-104
Edwin W. Ardener The 'personal enemy' in African politics [with introduction by D Zeitlyn] 105-10
John Knight The Danish pavilion in Kyoto: tracing the local career of a world fair exhibit 111-118
N. J. Allen Debating Dumezil: recent studies in comparative mythology 119-132
Andrew Duff-Cooper Values and hierarchy in the study of Balinese forms of life: on the applicability of Dumontian perspectives and the ranking of contexts 133-152
Georg Pfeffer Parkin's evidence [comments on RJ Parkin in JASO 1993 (24:1) 54-63] 153-7
Robert Parkin Second reply to Pfeffer 158-63
Terence Wright Malinowski and the imponderabilia of art and photography [reply to J Coote, see above] 164-5
Charles Stewart J. L. Wengle Ethnographers in the field: the psychology of research [review] 167-168
Charles Stewart R. Sanjek Fieldnotes: the makings of anthropology [review] 167-169
Fiona Bowie W. James The listening ebony: moral knowledge, religion, and power among the Uduk of Sudan [review] 169-171
G. van Alstyne J. Fabian Power and performance: ethnographic explorations through proverbial wisdom and theatre in Shaba, Zaire [review] 172
C. J. Fuller D. N. Gellner Monk, householder, and tantric priest: Newar Buddhism and its hierarchy of ritual [review] 173-175
Graham Dwyer L. Harlan Religion and Rajput women: the ethic of protection in contemporary narratives [review] 176-177
Helene Basu G. Obeyesekere The work of culture: symbolic transformations in psychoanalysis and anthropology [review] 177-179
Camilla Gibb H. Donnan Marriage among Muslims: preference and choice in northern Pakistan [review] 180-181
Simone A. Abram R. Borofsky Making history: Pukapukan and anthropological constructions of knowledge [review] 181-182
Klaus Hesse G. Condominas From Lawa to Mon, from Saa' to Thai: historical and anthropological aspects of Southeast Asian social spaces [review] 183-184
R. H. Barnes G. Weltfish The lost universe: Pawnee life and culture [review] 184-185
R. H. Barnes J. R. Murie Ceremonies of the Pawnee [review] 185-186
Marcus Banks D. H. Price Atlas of world cultures: a geographical guide to ethnographic literature [review] 186-186
Stefan Dietrich E. Brandewie When giants walked the earth: the life and times of Wilhelm Schmidt SVD [review] 187
Jeremy Coote Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt: 17 January 1921 to 9 November 1993 99
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Andrew Duff-Cooper The acquisition of higher knowledge by Balinese of western Lombok 197-222
Chris Hann Culture and anti-culture: the spectre of orientalism in new anthropological writing on Turkey 223-243
Jeremy V. MacClancy Cultured food 245-9
Robert Parkin The joking relationship and kinship: charting a theoretical dependency 251-63
Malcolm Bull A. D. Napier Foreign bodies: performance, art, and symbolic anthropology [review] 275-277
Lucia Nixon C. Stewart, S. Price Demons and the devil: moral imagination in modern Greek culture [review] 278-279
Peter Parkes H. Donnan, P. Werbner Economy and culture in Pakistan: migrants and cities in a Muslim society [review] 280-282
Roland Littlewood J. Western A passage to England: Barbadian Londoners speak of home [review] 283-284
Download the searchable PDF of Volume 25 1994
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Jeremy Coote Memorial issue for Andrew Duff-Cooper: introduction 1-2
Gerd Baumann Contextual indeterminacy: on the use of survey methods in fieldwork 3-9
Joy Hendry Gardens and the wrapping of space in Japan: some benefits of a Balinese insight 11-19
Helen Lambert The homeless goddess: cosmology, sickness and women's identity in Rajasthan 21-30
Jeremy MacClancy The construction of anthropological genealogies: Robert Hertz, Victor Turner and the study of pilgrimage 31-40
Christian McDonaugh Tharu mats and social structure 41-8
David Napier Saving or enslaving: the paradox of intellectual property 49-58
John Palmer Husek (the will): a Wich’ category of the person 59-68
Robert Parkin Equality, hierarchy and temperament 69-76
Anthony Shelton Huichol prayer: image and word in sacred communication 77-89
Charles Stewart Magic circles: an approach to Greek ritual 91-101
Louise Cooper and Gerd Baumann, compilers A bibliography of the writings of Andrew Duff-Cooper 103-10
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Serge Tcherkézoff Hierarchical reversal ten years on (Africa, India, Polynesia). 1, contexts and levels 133-67
W.S.F. Pickering (ed.) Four letters to Radcliffe-Brown from Durkheim and Mauss 169-78
Andy Wilson A field-guide to bibliographic research 179-83
Jeremy MacClancy Exhibiting difference 185-9
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N. J. Allen Lynn Teskey 7 January 1949 - 1 March 1995 228
Serge Tcherkézoff Hierarchical reversal ten years on (Africa, India, Polynesia), (2): Rodney Needham's Counterpoints 229-53
Peter Rivière WYSINWYG in Amazonia 255-62
James F. Weiner The politics of selfhood and gender in New Guinea 263-8
Download the searchable PDF of Volume 26 1995
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Ian Fowler and David Zeitlyn [Introduction to special issue ['Mama for story': studies in the ethnography of Cameroon in honour of Sally Chilver]] 1-4
Sally Chilver Letter to V.G. Fanso 105-10
Anonymous Bibliography of Sally Chilver 111-17
Viviane Baeke Wuli witchcraft 21-41
Hermann Gufler Yamba spider divination 43-67
Sally Chilver, Mitzi Goheen (ed.) and Eugenia Shanklin (ed.) Accidental collisions: a personal memoir 5-19
Hans-Joachim Koloss Kefuh myin: a therapeutic medicine in Oku 69-79
Charles-Henry Pradelles de Latour The initiation of the dugi among the Péré 81-6
Jean Hurault History of the Mambila chiefdom of Mbor (Sonkolong) 87-98
David Zeitlyn Eldridge Mohammadou on Tikar origins 99-104
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N. J. Allen Why did Odysseus become a horse? 143-54
Mike O'Hanlon Wysiswyg: what you see is sometimes what you get; and some further thoughts on the skin, the body and decoration in Melanesia 155-62
Howard Morphy (ed.) Gillen's scientific correspondence: selected letters from F.J. Gillen to W. Baldwin Spencer 163-96
Warren Shapiro Fuzziness, structure-dependency, and 'structural anthropology': an extended reply to Parkin 197-214
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Madawi al-Rasheed Iraqui Assyrians in London: beyond the [immigrant /refugee] divide 241-55
Henry M. Johnson An ethnomusicology of musical instruments: form, function, and meaning 257-69
Dmitri Tsintjilonis Enchanted bodies: wysiwyng in Tana Toraja 271-82
Therea Wobbe On the horizons of a new discipline: early women sociologists in Germany 283-97
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