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This book addresses the recent transformations of popular Hinduism by focusing upon the religious cu
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Autumn Womack is a professor of English and of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her
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In Wandering Games (MIT Press, 2022), Melissa Kagen analyzes wandering within different game worlds,
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