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Title: Superb book, bad edition
Review: Godfrey Lienhardt's Divinity and Experience is a classic and sensitive ethnography of Dinka religious life. This 2003 paperbook reprint by Clarendon (Oxford University Press), however, does a great disservice to Lienhardt by eliminating the plates that were present in previous editions! Plus, the $95 list price is borderline criminal. I would give this edition zero stars for omitting the plates and the exorbitant price, but out of respect for Linhardt's magnificent work, I am giving a rating of two stars in order to spare him the indignity of a lowest possible rating. Do yourselves a favor and buy a cheap used copy of this edition or pay the few extra dollars for an earlier edition that includes the plates.
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