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Book Review: Making History in Banda: Anthropological Visions of Africa's Past. By Ann B. Stahl. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (ISBN 0 521 80182 6), 2001, 268 pp.

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Kusimba, C.M., Oka, R.C. Book Review: Making History in Banda: Anthropological Visions of Africa's Past. By Ann B. Stahl. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (ISBN 0 521 80182 6), 2001, 268 pp.. African Archaeological Review 20, 203–212 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:AARR.0000005675.81257.7c

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