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Among the Baliem valley Dani of the central highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, infants play a prominent role in social relations. Infant mortality rates among the Dani are above two hundred and fifty deaths per thousand live births and birth rates are low. To these patterns of …

This is a political biography of Stanley Fletcher Morse. Morse, an agricultural expert, became a political activist in the early 1930's and continued his activism for much of the next forty years. Studying his political activities shed light on conservative resistance to politic…

Tragic Investigations argues that understanding American political conflict through the conventions of tragedy offers us a better understanding the stakes of these conflicts and our civic character. Drawing on the work of classical scholars who have situated the conflicts of Att…

When we talk about the legacy of war, we most often do not discuss how the experience of war affects the way non-combatants reconstruct their lives in its wake. Less frequently still do we examine how the experience of war affects the way such people reconstruct their social and…