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Exhumations, reburials and remakings

‘Bones in the wrong soil’: reburial, belonging, and disinterred cosmologies in post-conflict northern Uganda

‘Les os dans le mauvais sol’: réinhumation, appartenance et cosmologies exhumées dans l'Ouganda du Nord d'après-conflit

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Pages 182-201 | Received 04 May 2014, Accepted 26 Feb 2015, Published online: 30 Jul 2015

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