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Confronting the Present

Confronting the Present

Gavin Smith

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
1999
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Sociedad y ciencias sociales
ISBN:
9781859732007

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Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics always somewhere else and to do with persons characterized as in some way different from ourselves.

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