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How ‘Natives’ Think, About the Soul, For Example (with apologies to Sahlins)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Stephen D. Houston
Affiliation:
Department of AnthropologyBrigham Young UniversityProvo, UT 84602, USA

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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1997

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