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Fubah, Mathias Alubafi: Title Cups and People. Relationships and Change in Grassfields Art 183
Georg Schifko: Zu einem ungewöhnlichen Diorama, das den Handel von mumifizierten Maori-Köpfen (mokomokai / upoko tuhi) darstellt 195
George J. Toepfer: Who Are Australian Aborigines and Where Are They at Today 200
Ranty R. Islam: Believing to Recover. The Role of Religion in the Recovery Phase of Natural Disasters 209
Christoph Antweiler: On Cultural Evolution. A Review of Current Research toward a Unified Theory of Societal Change 217
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Bernstein, Julia: Food for Thought. Transnational Contested Identities and Food Practices of Russian-Speaking Jewish Migrants in Israel and Germany (Larissa Remennick) 234
Búriková, Zuzana, and Daniel Miller: Au Pair (Caterina Rohde) 235
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Förster, Larissa: Postkoloniale Erinnerungslandschaften. Wie Deutsche und Herero in Namibia des Kriegs von 1904 gedenken (Godwin Kornes) 251
Franceschi, Zelda Alice, y María Cristina Dasso: Etnografias. La escritura como testimonio entre los Wichi (Diego Villar) 253
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Kazubowski-Houston, Magdalena: Staging Strife. Lessons from Performing Ethnography with Polish Roma Women (David Z. Scheffel) 273
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Suzuki, Taku: Embodying Belonging. Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan (Nobuko Adachi) 306
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