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fanon

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fanon [ˈfænən]
n RC Church
1. (Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) a collar-shaped vestment worn by the pope when celebrating mass
2. (Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) (formerly) various pieces of embroidered fabric used in the liturgy
[Middle English, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German fano cloth]


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Some 100 excerpts are presented in chronological sections, among them Marx and Addams for 1848-1919, Keynes and Fromm for 1919-45, Levi-Strauss and Fanon for 1945-63, Galbraith and Derrida for 1963-79, Rorty and Henry Louis Gates for 1979-1991/2001, and Immanuel Wallerstein and Edward Said for after 2001.
He was born in Millbury and is predeceased by his parents, George and Harriet (Foshay) Amour; a daughter, Linda Connolly; two sisters, Arleen Fanon and Harriet Amour and a brother, William Amour.
Writing in The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon wrote of the psychological damage the violence caused to those on all sides, including those who inflicted torture.
 
 
 
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