Mike McGovern

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Bushmeat and the Politics of Disgust

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Bushmeat and the Politics of Disgust

"Can we not splatter the monkey all over me, please? Oh my God. I'm getting fucking pegged with Ebola monkey right now. I'm getting fragged with Ebola monkey." ... More

Toward an Anthropology of Legitimacy

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Toward an Anthropology of Legitimacy

Mike McGovern, Department of Anthropology, Yale University As I sat down to write this short piece on Laurent Gbagbo's mundane rendition to the International Cr... More