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Letter: Culture is not sacred when it oppresses

Published 30 November 2016

From Gwydion Williams, Coventry, West Midlands, UK

Your article on “honour cultures” was interesting, but could have given more history. The Icelandic sagas, to take just one example, give details of just such a system, operating with its own laws and without a regular state.

Issue no. 3102 published 3 December 2016

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