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hoaxes in anthropology  

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  • Virtually all fields of science are afflicted to some extent by hoaxes. Anthropology is no different, with each of its subfields having been subjected to at least a measure of intellectual dishonesty and fakery. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Hoaxes in Anthropology]

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