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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: Publication Date: 01/10/2005
      ISBN13: 9780226869797, 978-0226869797
      ISBN10: 0226869792
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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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