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  • Ashmore, W., M.-A. Dobres, S.M. Nelson & A. Rosen. (ed.) 2006. Integrating the diversity of twenty-first-century anthropology: the life and intellectual legacies of Susan Kent (Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 16). Arlington (VA): American Anthropological Association.

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  • - 1989. Farmers as hunters: the implications of sedentism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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  • Kent, S. 1986. The influence of sedentism and aggregation on porotic hyperostosis and anemia: a case study. Man 21: 605-36.

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  • - 1989. And justice for all: the development of political centralization among newly sedentary foragers. American Anthropologist 91: 703-12.

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  • - 1990. Kalahari violence in perspective. American Anthropologist 92: 1015-7.

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  • - 1991. Partitioning space: cross-cultural factors influencing domestic spatial segmentation. Environment and Behavior 23: 438-73.

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  • - 1992. The current forager controversy: real versus ideal views of hunter-gatherers. Man 27: 45-70.

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  • - 1995. Does sedentarization promote gender inequality? A case study from the Kalahari. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1: 513-36.

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  • - 1999. Egalitarianism, equality, and equitable power, in T.L. Sweely (ed.) Manifesting power: gender and the interpretation of power in archaeology: 30-48. London: Routledge.

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  • Kent, S. & D. Dunn. 1993. Etiology of hypoferremia in a recently sedentary Kalahari village. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 48: 554-67.

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  • Kent, S. & R.B. Lee. 1992. A hematological study of Kung Kalahari foragers: an eighteen year comparison, in P. Stuart-Macadam & S. Kent (ed.) Diet, demography, and disease: changing views of anemia: 173-99. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

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  • Rosen, A., S.M. Nelson, M.-A. Dobres & W. Ashmore. 2006. Introduction. Susan Kent: a life and a legacy, in W. Ashmore, M.-A. Dobres, S.M. Nelson & A. Rosen (ed.) Integrating the diversity of twenty-first-century anthropology: the life and intellectual legacies of Susan Kent (Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 16): 1-9. Arlington (VA): American Anthropological Association. (contains a complete bibliography of Susan Kent’s writings).

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Ashmore, W. (2014). Kent, Susan. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_990

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