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Transparency and conspiracy : ethnographies of suspicion in the new world order

Through vivid ethnographic analyses, this book examines the range of expressions of the popular suspicion of power - including forms of shamanism, sorcery, conspiracy theory, and urban legends - illuminating them as ways of making sense of the world in the midst of tumultuous and uneven processes of modernization.
Print Book, English, 2003
Duke University Press, Durham, 2003
Kongress London 1999
316 pages ; 25 cm
9780822330363, 9780822330240, 0822330369, 0822330245
50737000
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