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Niko Besnier, Literacy, emotion, and authority: Reading and writing on a polynesian atoll. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 234.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2012

Leila F. Monaghan
Affiliation:
Anthropology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553, [email protected]

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