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Explores the ritual concessions as acts of warfare, performances of submission, demonstrations of power, and representations of shifting, unstable worlds. The author considers the limits of sovereignty at conflict's end, showing how the ways we concede loss can be as important as the ways we claim victory.

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/10/2005
    ISBN13: 9780226869797, 978-0226869797
    ISBN10: 0226869792
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    Military History Sociology and anthropology Warfare and defence

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    Book Synopsis
    Explores the ritual concessions as acts of warfare, performances of submission, demonstrations of power, and representations of shifting, unstable worlds. The author considers the limits of sovereignty at conflict's end, showing how the ways we concede loss can be as important as the ways we claim victory.

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