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ISBN10: 080328280X, ISBN13: 9780803282803, [publisher: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR] Softcover The 22 selections in this volume highlight the many telling achievements and enduring insights in American anthropology during the first few decades after World War II.&Uumlber den AutorRobert F. Murphy was a professor of anthr.
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