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Susan Thorne
Susan Thorne*
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Duke University
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 110 - 117
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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 1994

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I would like to thank Cynthia Herrup and Jean O'Barr for their helpful comments.

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3 This phrase is used by John Comaroff to describe missionaries' position in the colonial pecking order; see “Images of Empire: Contests of Conscience: Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa,” American Ethnologist 16, no. 4 (November 1989): 661–85CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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