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Excerpt from Masks as Agents of Social Control in Northeast Liberia It 15 with a feeling of high privilege, there fore, that I find myself, after twenty-three years of residence in the midst of these people, the possessor of an accumulated knowledge of their most sacred objects which begins to fit together into a more or less comprehensive picture of the socio-religious forces which underlie their reactions to the more important crises of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.