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An anthropologist returns from this country with a “kaleidoscopic” suitcase made of tin soda cans in one book’s “Interlude at Harvard.” A missionary school-founding cleric provides the “Alexis advantage” to villagers in this country per a book subtitled for the “geography of blame.” An anthropologist used funds from Project Bread (10[1])to found a bakery in this country’s town of Cange (“kanj”), where he began working with Roald Dahl’s daughter Ophelia. The first section of Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains (10[1])follows (10[2]-5[1])Paul Farmer’s (10[2]-5[1])medical (10[1]-5[1])work in this country. (10[4]-5[2])One anthropologist argued that the hallucinogenic plant Datura and tetrodotoxin (10[2])from a pufferfish let a bokor in this country (-5[1])put laborer Clairvius Narcisse into a (10[1])stupor. For 10 points, The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis (-5[1])discusses the creation of zombies in what home country of Vodou? ■END■ (10[7])

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