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Un/common Cultures : Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference /

"In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lends itself to culturalist assumptions. She holds that the new culturalism -- the idea that cultural differences are definitive, and thus divisive --...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Visweswaran, Kamala (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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