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Book Review: Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays From the Field. By Gilbert Herdt. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1999, 327 pp., $20.00

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Giles, J. Book Review: Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays From the Field. By Gilbert Herdt. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1999, 327 pp., $20.00. Arch Sex Behav 33, 413–417 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ASEB.0000029074.36846.30

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