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BOOK REVIEW Edited by David E. Balk

Toward a necropolitics of uncertainty

A review of The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 2000–2020: Bones, Rumors & Spirits, by Joost Fontein. Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2022. 349 pp. (ISBN 978-1847012678). $115

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