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Friday, June 29, 2012

U.S. Adopts New Flag—Temporary Measure until Obesity Epidemic under Control


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Chris Roth is a social-cultural and linguistic anthropologist with an interest in the symbolic politics of nationalism and ethnicity. He has worked extensively with indigenous groups in northern British Columbia and southeast Alaska and is the author of an ethnography of the Tsimshian Nation.
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