Wednesday Martin

author, 'Primates of Park Avenue'

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When we think of anthropologists studying a culture, we picture distant tribes on the pages of National Geographic magazine.

The 'Primates of Park Avenue'

When we think of anthropologists studying a culture, we picture distant tribes on the pages of National Geographic magazine.

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