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Culture Incarnate

Culture Incarnate

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

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Editorial:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
1995
Materia
Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9781563245343

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This collection of studies uses the processes of analysis and self-analysis to examine the social, political and spiritual forces at work in the post-Soviet world. The text includes discussions of ethnohistory, political anthropology and ethnic conflict, and symbolic anthropology.

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