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Special issue paper in: Commodity Traders and the First Global Economy

Sourcing and shipping museum objects from East Africa to the Smithsonian, 1887–1891

Amy StambachDepartment of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 848-862 | Published online: 19 Nov 2019

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