Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference

Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference

Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference

Sam Gill

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2018
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Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
ISBN:
9781498580878

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Differences—cultural, religious, racial, gender, age—are at the heart of the most disruptive and disturbing concerns from personal relationships to global politics. Creative Encounters argues for the higher goal of appreciating difference as being essential to creativity and innovation, even if often experienced as stressful and complex.

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