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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
      Published 1 October 2005
      ISBN-13 9780226869797
      978-0226869797
      ISBN-10 0226869792
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      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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