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While Native American rituals showed the desire to seize the strength and courage of an outsider so as to combat him better, the European ritual revealed the existence of a dissymmetry, an irrevocable imbalance of power within society itself.—David Graeber, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
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