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Anthropology And The Will To Meaning

Anthropology And The Will To Meaning

Anthropology And The Will To Meaning

Vassos Argyrou

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Pluto Books Ltd
Año de edición:
2002
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Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
ISBN:
9780745318592
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Argyrou puts forward a powerful critique of both modern and postmodern anthropology that reveals the self-centered logic of anthropological humanism.

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