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28 - The Interface between Kinship and Politics in Three Different Social Settings

from Part VI - Kinship and the Nation-State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2019

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Signe Howell
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Sandra Bamford
Sandra Bamford
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University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship , pp. 658 - 674
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Print publication year: 2019

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