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Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family

Lentz, Carola and Isidore Lobnibe. 2022. Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family. Indiana University Press. https://boo...

Carola Lentz Carola Lentz Isidore Lobnibe Isidore Lobnibe

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ETN:H20

Lundin, Susanne, Johanna Rivano Eckerdal and Lynn Åkesson. Eds. 2021. ETN:H20. In ETN. Etnologisk skriftserie. Vol. 10. Institutionen för ku...

Susanne Lundin Susanne Lundin

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Hair: The Natural and Unnatural History of a Human Obsession

Hair is one of the most distinctive features of the human species and of individual people.

Nina Jablonski Nina Jablonski

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Indigeneity, Alienness and Cuisine: Are Trout South African?

Brown, Duncan. 2016. Indigeneity, Alienness and Cuisine: Are Trout South African? Pp. 21–38 in Cooking Cultures: Convergent Histories of Foo...

Duncan Brown Duncan Brown

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Kingfisher Tales

The Greek myth of the European Kingfisher has inspired many poets and writers and left deep traces in European culture.

Willem Hendrik Gispen Willem Hendrik Gispen
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