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"In her quirky new contribution to the American cultural brawl, feminist anthropologist Micaela di Leonardo explains how anthropologists, 'technicians of the sacred, have distorted American popular debate and social life....In 367 cranky, lively pages she persuasively condemns the ways in which sacred technicians fed the twisted logic of everything from welfare reform to New Age goddess-worshipping."Di Leonardo, Micaela is the author of 'Exotics at Home Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity', published 2000 under ISBN 9780226472645 and ISBN 0226472647.
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