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The Roots of Violence

The Roots of Violence

M. J. Azevedo

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
1998
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Antropología
ISBN:
9789056995829

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Azevedo explores how violence has permeated and become almost an intrinsic part of the fabric of the central-eastern Sudanic societies and how foreign interference over the centuries have exacerbated rather than suppressed the violence.

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