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Editorial Foreword

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2004

Thomas R. Trautmann
Affiliation:
History and Anthropology, University of Michigan
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PERFORMING HISTORY History performed is always tendentious, and unable to cloak itself in the dress of the impartial judge while being the zealous advocate. The first three articles seek to understand how exactly these advocacies are constructed, by, respectively, the warring churches of a Sicilian town, the commodification of Jordanian hospitality, and a coronation ceremony in Zambia.

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Editorial
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© 2004 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History