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Making Blood White Cummings (interdisciplinary studies, U. of South Florida) examines the ways in which the past was conceived, interpreted, and used in early modern Makassar (now part of Indonesia). In his examination of the manuscripts and stories produced in the 16th and 17th centuries, he argues that written histories describing the descent of elites from a white-blooded heavenly being were vital in the creation... Full description