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A detailed analysis of the foundations of supermanifold theory, not from the usual approach of theoretical physics, but focusing on the global geometric aspects, and following a modified DeWitt-Rogers approach in order to outline the basic geometry of supermanifolds. Of interest to mathematicians and physicists, but also usable as a supplementary g