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26 - Reading the Contested Forms of Nation through the Contested Forms of Kinship and Marriage

from Part VI - Kinship and the Nation-State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2019

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Susan McKinnon
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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. 605 - 628
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