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ame, b ut maintaining sameness through alterity.
The available his
tories of the Cuna shed strange light on the logic of this process, for by remaining resolutely "themselves," resolutely alter vis a vis old Europe as well as-note clearly-its black slaves, the Cuna have been able to "stay the same" in a world of forceful change. Time and again this (appearance of) persistent Cuna sameness has been pointed
more often than not, Western mirrored