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Part III - The Dialectics of Mimesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2019

Ian Hodder
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Stanford University, California
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Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East
Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük
, pp. 151 - 232
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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