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Article: Barbara Sorgoni, Words and Bodies: anthropology, legal discourses and interracial sex policies in Eritrea.
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BARBARA SORGONI, Parole e corpi: antropologia, discorso giuridico e politiche sessuali interraziali nella colonia Eritrea, 1890-1941 [Words and Bodies: anthropology, legal discourses and interracial sex policies in Eritrea]. Naples: Liguori, 1998, 287 pp., L31,000.00, ISBN 88 207 2808 7.
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